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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165734 | Method and device for guiding an aircraft Disclosed is a method and device of guiding an aircraft along a flight trajectory to comply with a time constraint for arriving at a required arrival time at a waypoint of the flight trajectory. Speed setpoints are determined according to a speed profile that compli... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160756 | Method and device for generating a speed for an aircraft during a taxiing Disclosed is a system for generating a controlled speed for an aircraft along a ground trajectory. The system provides for receiving a ground trajectory of the aircraft and the speed profile of the aircraft. An interpolated speed of the aircraft is calculated on the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155803 | Device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft A device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft. The device automatically determines when an engine failure is detected, vectoring settings including speed, thrust and altitude settings designed to be implemented on the aircra... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8112187 | Formation flight control method The invention relates to a method for controlling the formation flight of at least two aircraft (1,2). The first aircraft (1) includes means of transmitting its position, its velocity and its flight plan. The flight plan has predictions of altitude, ve... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108085 | Control system for vehicles A system for controlling flight of an aircraft has sensors, a receiver, and a digital control system, all of which are carried aboard the aircraft. The sensors determine the position of the aircraft relative to the earth and the inertial movement of the aircraft. Th... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095251 | System for monitoring anemobaroclinometric parameters for aircraft The disclosed embodiments concerns a system for monitoring anemobaroclinometric parameters in an aircraft, including a primary detection circuit having at least one measurement channel. The measurement channel includes a device for... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8014909 | Control system for vehicles A system for controlling flight of an aircraft has sensors (37, 43), a receiver (45), and a digital control system (57), all of which are carried aboard the aircraft. The sensors (37, 43) determine the position of the aircraft relative to... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014910 | Assisted take-off method for aircraft A reference value is arbitrarily selected from a range of possible aircraft rotation speeds. A position of a trimmable horizontal stabilizer is angled in accordance with a centering of the reference value. A deviation between the reference value and an accelerating ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7974745 | Avionic aviation system with a ground station for automatic elimination of resultant failures in aircraft, and corresponding method An avionic aviation system including: a ground station that is linked to an aircraft via a wireless interface; wherein the ground station includes, a receiver that receives, via a wireless interface, a transmission from a detection device integrated in avionics of t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970501 | Methods and systems utilizing true airspeed to improve vertical velocity accuracy An inertial navigation system which includes a first control system and a second control system is described. The first control system is configured to estimate a vertical velocity based in part on received vertical acceleration data. The second control system is co... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970500 | Sensor fusion system and method for estimating position, speed and orientation of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft This invention relates to a system for estimating the position, velocity and orientation of a vehicle, by determining the components of two noncollinear constant unit vectors b,b according to vehicle body axes; and determining the components of... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7941250 | Method and a device for obtaining a predictive vertical speed of a rotorcraft A method and a device for obtaining a predictive vertical speed of a rotorcraft, the device constituting a predictive vertical speed indicator (1) that includes at least: first elements (1′) for measuring the instan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7930073 | Method and system for controlling airfoil actuators A method of measuring the state of flow above an airfoil using an estimation of the velocity field based on a combination of Particle Image Velocimetry PIV and multiple surface pressure measurements processed through a POD/mLSE algorithm. Integral to the POD/mLSE al... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917254 | Aircraft guidance using localizer capture criteria for rectilinear displacement data Systems and methods for aircraft guidance using a localizer capture criteria for rectilinear displacement data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a rectilinear deviation D between a current aircraft location and a final defined path (F... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7689328 | Determining suitable areas for off-airport landings A routing tool is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and system include receiving flight data and geographic data in the aircraft, and generating route data based on the flight data and the geographic data. The route data provides information about attainable ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7617023 | Process and device for monitoring the validity of a speed cue of an aircraft and system for generating a speed cue comprising such a device A process for monitoring the validity of a speed cue of an aircraft may include computing a coefficient of lift, which is representative of the lift of the aircraft, on the basis of values of static and total pressure. A first value of angle of incidence is computed... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7480548 | High-altitude capable wide velocity range flight velocity vector measurement probe and measurement system It is an object of the present invention to solve the problem of a drop in precision in conventional systems using a square pyramid type five-hole probe due to the drop in atmospheric pressure in high altitude ranges, and to provide a wide velocity range flight velo... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7433765 | Fly by wire static longitudinal stability compensator system A static longitudinal stability (SLS) system provides an unobtrusive airspeed hold function that reacts to the pilot control inputs into the flight control system and the measured states of the aircraft to engage and disengage smoothly without any explicit mode sele... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7412308 | Dynamic VSI display A graphical display of a dynamic vertical speed indicator (VSI). ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7398182 | Method and device for detecting degradation of performance of an aircraft An aircraft performance degradation detection system may include information sources, a central unit connected to the information sources, and a warning device that is connected to the central unit. Using information received from the information sources, the centra... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389163 | Procedure to minimize the risk of air collision for personal mid-air vehicles A method of and a system for controlling personal air vehicle (PAV) traffic provides a take-off-and-landing zone, and a forward flight zone. The take-off-and-landing zone may be from the ground up to a first altitude. The forward flight zone may be from the first al... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7370836 | Missile defense system and methods for evading heat seeking missiles A method for aiding a helicopter pilot to avoid a heat seeking missile includes the step of detecting a threat from a missile. The method also includes the step of reducing heat emanating from the helicopter's engine and rapidly reducing altitude. Then, when the thr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369845 | Managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device A portable communication device detects a current speed of travel of the portable communication device independent of any vehicle temporarily transporting the portable communication device. A speed based setting controller of the portable communication device compar... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367531 | Systems and methods for evading heat seeking missles A method and system in an airborne aircraft to evade a heat seeking missile includes the steps of detecting the launch or “lock on” of a heat seeking missile and reducing the radiation from the aircraft's engine by reducing the engine speed to idle. The method m... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7337045 | Airborne windshear detection and warning system An airborne windshear detection and warning system includes a pitot tube for detecting the airspeed of an aircraft and an angle of attack vane for detecting an aircraft's angle of attack. Signals are generated and fed to a signal processor for determining a relation... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334939 | Method and device for verifying a temperature value at a destination altitude of an aircraft The device comprises a means for measuring a dynamic temperature on the outside of the aircraft, a means for determining a static temperature around the aircraft, using said dynamic temperature, a means for determining, using said static temperature and a thermodyna... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328104 | Systems and methods for improved inertial navigation A method for producing inertial measurement data is provided. The method comprises receiving raw inertial measurement data from one or more inertial sensors; receiving raw position data based on signals from a global navigation satellite system; processing the raw i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305286 | System and method for gyro enhanced vertical flight information A flight instrument and associated method where vertical speed information is combined with gyro information to produce gyro enhanced vertical speed information that is displayed to a pilot. The gyro information may include a pitch rate gyro and may include an azimu... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295134 | Terrain avoidance method and device for an aircraft An aircraft terrain avoidance method and device may employ a collision warning section that transmits a caution signal when the aircraft risks colliding with the terrain at the end of a first predetermined period of time. A warning signal is transmitted when the air... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284420 | Air data system and method for rotary aircraft An air data system and method for a rotary aircraft is described. The air data system includes a plurality of flush ports connected via tubing to a plurality of air flow sensors that can measure air flow speeds as low as approximately 0.02 knots. The flush ports are... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7257470 | Fault isolation method and apparatus in artificial intelligence based air data systems A method providing fault isolation, in an air data system which uses artificial intelligence to generate an air data parameter, includes generating the air data parameter as a function of a plurality of measured values such as static pressures. Then, estimates of ea... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248208 | Methods and systems for maintaining a position during hovering operations A method for maintaining a position of a hovering vehicle that incorporates a radar altimeter is described. The method includes receiving signals at the radar altimeter based on a change of horizontal direction, operating the radar altimeter to generate a Doppler fr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248967 | Autonomous velocity estimation and navigation Measurement of a spatial velocity vector in order to make determination of a geographical position possible. A spatial velocity meter includes an inertial measurement unit, a direction-sensing module and a velocity processor. The inertial measurement unit registers ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7213454 | Method and apparatus for obtaining improved accuracy and range for air data parameters inferred from independent measurements of interdependent pressures A method of calculating a system level air data parameter for an aircraft, for example aircraft angle-of-attack (AOA) and/or angle-of-sideslip (AOS), includes measuring a plurality of local static pressures pi. Next, a plurality of non-dimensional pressur... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7124630 | Multipurpose sensor for aircraft The invention concerns a multifunction probe for aircraft. The probe measures the total pressure and measures the total temperature of an air flow surrounding the aircraft. The total pressure is measured by a first tube, the so-called Pitot tube oriented substantial... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127335 | Low airspeed assist algorithm for air data computer applications A method of estimating the airspeed of an aircraft during low airspeed conditions includes measuring a negative impact pressure using a pitot-static probe on the aircraft. Then, the method includes estimating a non-zero airspeed of the aircraft as a function of the ... | 10/24/2006 |
