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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8027758 | Navigation system for an aircraft and associated command process A navigation system for an aircraft, including a calculator of an estimated flight path for the aircraft; a device for determining an estimated value of a flight parameter that corresponds to an estimated speed for the extension of at least a portion of the high-lif... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7945356 | Portable autonomous terminal guidance system A portable autonomous terminal guidance system can be located in an aircraft landing zone. The terminal guidance system generates a signal indicative of the position, the terrain, and the meteorological conditions where the guidance system is located. A receiving ai... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7925394 | Method of forming a 3D safe emergency descent trajectory for aircraft and implementation device The method in accordance with the invention is a method of providing a 3D emergency descent trajectory for aircraft comprising the steps of searching for at least one possible better trajectory allowing a secure continuation in relation to the relief and/or the surr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7400951 | Method and device for automatic guidance of an aircraft, for a flight at least in part at low altitude A method of automatically guiding an aircraft for flight at low altitude determines an LLF (low level flight) trajectory section for following terrain to be overflown by the aircraft. The LLF trajectory section takes account of predictions of the aircraft's mass and... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7302318 | Method for implementing required navigational performance procedures A method (200) is disclosed for designing an RNP approach for an aircraft at a particular runway (90). The method includes selecting a runway (201), gathering obstacle data for the obstacle evaluation area (202), selecting a VEB method an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7256710 | Methods and systems for graphically displaying sources for and natures of aircraft flight control instructions Methods and systems for graphically displaying sources for aircraft flight control instructions are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes displaying at a display medium a map of a region at least proximate to an aircraft and... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7206698 | Ground operations and imminent landing runway selection A method, computer program product and apparatus for locating aircraft with respect to airport runways and environs, generating a graphical display of the aircraft position, heading and ground speed information relative to the aircraft runways and environs, and annu... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7195200 | Unmanned helicopter, takeoff method of unmanned helicopter, and landing method of unmanned helicopter An unmanned helicopter includes an altitude control device for giving a command of a collective pitch blade angle based on an altitude change rate command, etc., and performing altitude control of an airframe and takeoff device, upon reception of a takeoff start com... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191406 | Avionics display system for memorization of display configuration to phase of flight pushbuttons An avionics system having displays with display configurations pilot selected for a phase of flight of an aircraft and reconfigurable for each phase of flight. A multifunction flight display stores and displays the stored phase of flight display configurations for e... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7107146 | Methods and systems for generating a terrain elevation map in a cartesian format Methods, systems, and computer program products for re-sampling terrain data in a vehicle from latitude/longitude format into a Cartesian format. The present invention permits incremental updates of the terrain elevation map as the vehicle travels. The present inven... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7035780 | Methods of and apparatus for routing ranked critical conductors in ranked preferred tracks A method for routing conductors in an integrated circuit design is disclosed, including the steps of determining the number of sensitive conductors requiring placement into quiet track locations, wherein a quiet track location is defined as any track location immedi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7026956 | Method of integrating speed deviation cues in a vehicle navigation display A display system for a vehicle is provided. The display system includes a display configured to render a representation of an intended vehicle path. At least one relative speed indicator is rendered upon the display. The at least one relative speed indicator is conf... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6720891 | Vertical situation display terrain/waypoint swath, range to target speed, and blended airplane reference A flight information display for the flight deck of an aircraft showing a pictorial side view of the flight path or the area directly in front of the aircraft area having a selected distance of at least 0.5 nautical miles, comprising (a) a pictorial representation t... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6718236 | Method for conducting a moving vehicle along a trajectory of a coordinated maneuver based on state information broadcast by other vehicles participating in the coordinated maneuver A method for coordinating numerous vehicles within a common maneuver is characterized by receiving, at a moving vehicle, state and projected maneuver information of other vehicles participating in the maneuver via a broadcast link and utilizing the information to co... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6711479 | Avionics system for determining terminal flightpath A method, avionics apparatus and computer program for determining a terminal flight path, including access to aircraft position information provided by a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. The method apparatus and computer program determine an Intended Touchd... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6618650 | Vehicle sharing system When a user enters a language to be used via a port terminal, a system controller transfers information as to the language to be used to a navigation unit via an antenna and a communication unit which are mounted on a selected electric vehicle, and the na... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6600977 | Glideslope monitor for aircraft A system, method, and computer program product for alerting an aircraft flight crew of an inconsistency during an instrument landing system (ILS) approach to a selected runway. The system includes a component configured to receive glideslope and localizer... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6593858 | Methods and apparatus for generating a vertical situational image of a vehicle Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a vertical situational image of a vehicle. The apparatus for generating a vertical situational image of the vehicle is comprised of an input device configured to receive flight plan data of the vehicle and... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6505102 | Method and device for assistance with the piloting of an aircraft, especially a transport airplane The method provides for an information presentation (IF1) to be presented on a visual-display screen (5), the information representing at least one vertical plane along a theoretical flight trajectory of the aircraft, and which includes an axis system (8,... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502015 | Terrain following apparatus for a vehicle A Terrain Following Apparatus for a vehicle such as an aircraft includes means (1) for effecting autonomous following of terrain by the vehicle, a control device (2), operable by a person operating the vehicle, to engage and disengage the means (1), a Ter... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6438469 | Flight control system and method for an aircraft circle-to-land maneuver A flight control system and method for controlling a circle-to-land ("CTL") maneuver utilizes an airborne area navigator. The area navigator receives inputs on aircraft category, aircraft position and speed, airport navigation data and pilot supplied data... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6304800 | Methods, apparatus and computer program products for automated runway selection The present invention provides several apparatus, methods, and computer program products for predicting which one of at least two candidate runways on which an aircraft is most likely to land, such that data concerning the predicted runway may be used by ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6272406 | Guidance system for an automated guided-vehicle A guidance system for guiding an automated guided vehicle along a pathway is disclosed which includes rails for holding the AGV to the generally straight portions of the pathway and a non-rail guidance system for directing the AGV from the end of a first ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6239745 | Satellite landing system having instrument landing system look alike guidance Disclosed are a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) landing system (GLS) and methods of using the same to calculate a vertical deviation from the glide slope of the aircraft. A GNSS antenna and position determining circuitry are used to determine th... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6157876 | Method and apparatus for navigating an aircraft from an image of the runway An image sensor attached to an aircraft generates an image. The image includes a runway and other objects. The edges within the image are detected and Nav Data is used to predict the coordinates defining the runway. The predicted coordinates and the detec... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154151 | Integrated vertical situation display for aircraft An integrated vertical situation display (IVSD) for an aircraft, and method of displaying vertical situation information, are disclosed herein. The IVSD includes an electronic display for displaying the vertical situation of the aircraft, input interfaces... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5745863 | Three dimensional lateral displacement display symbology which is conformal to the earth An aircraft display communicates three dimensional lateral information to a pilot of the aircraft. An extended course centerline symbol and lateral deviation marks indicate lateral deviation from a desired course along with approximate altitude and distan... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5739770 | Off-path descent guidance by a flight management system A method for providing off-path guidance during a descent comprises the steps of determining a current altitude (H) and a corresponding current horizontal distance (X) of the aircraft from a selected bottom of descent point (B/D). A simulation of a Basic ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5675646 | Method of writing identification number of electronic apparatus The present invention involves a method of writing an identification number of a CATV receiving apparatus and intends to achieve a rapid write operation and reduction in the capacity of a control program. A microcomputer (7) is reset in a first step (15) ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5523949 | Method and apparatus for an improved autopilot system providing for late runway change An improvement to an autopilot flight director system allows the flight crew to make a late runway change without disengaging the autopilot. The improved system allows a transition to a new runway assignment if radio altitude is greater than 1500 feet. Co... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5377937 | Aircraft flare control system utilizing an envelope limiter An aircraft autoland flare control system which augments the autopilot's aircraft flare control commands in the event the aircraft exceeds defined flare envelopes, monitors aircraft longitudinal position, altitude, altitude rate, lateral position and late... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5337982 | Apparatus and method for controlling the vertical profile of an aircraft In an aircraft, there is included a Flight Management System (FMS), Autopilot and Autothrottle for controlling the aircraft. The apparatus has a plurality of outputs for definition of the real-time targets, controlled by the Autopilot and Autothrottle, to... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5020747 | Method and apparatus for controlling flare engagement height in automatic landing systems Disclosed is a method of and apparatus for determining the flare height at which the flare maneuver of an automatic landing procedure is initiated. The method includes the step of generating an adjusted approach sink rate signal, which depends on the grou... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4916605 | Fast write operations A technique is described for performing a fast write operation. A host write request, which would normally be serviced by an immediate physical write to a data storage device, is instead written to cache and nonvolatile storage in the data storage device ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4855904 | Cache storage queue In a pipeline data processing machine having a first unit for execution of instructions running according to a first pipeline and a second unit for storing data from a plurality of ports running according to a second pipeline, the first unit having a resu... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4709336 | Descent flight path control for aircraft Apparatus for the automatically controlling aircraft descent to a computed descent flight path. At any point in the descent portion of flight, a path error signal is used to compute an incremental speed command that is algebraically summed with a nominal ... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4633404 | Automatic deceleration of aircraft during descent Deceleration control apparatus for an aircraft having an automatic altitude capture and hold system and an airspeed hold system, both systems controlled by controlling pitch attitude wherein during a descent from a higher altitude under airspeed-on-pitch ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4534000 | Inertial flight director system The disclosed apparatus is useful in controlling an aircraft inertial flight path on the final approach to landing to coincide with a desired flight path represented by the intersection of the localizer and glide path electronic beam signals, and there be... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4482961 | Automatic control system for directional control of an aircraft during landing rollout A control system for maintaining an aircraft within the lateral boundaries of a runway during landing rollout under conditions of combined crosswind and low runway friction is disclosed. An automatic mode of operation is provided wherein the system utiliz... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4419732 | Method and apparatus for an aircraft inner loop elevator control system An improved inner loop control is disclosed for use in an aircraft pitch axis control system. Signals representative of vertical acceleration and pitch rate are complementary filtered and summed to produce an "inner loop" damping signal which is combined ... | 12/06/1983 |
