Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150566 | System for selecting data representing an air parameter, process and computer program relating to the same A system for selecting a datum among a set of data representing an air parameter, this set comprising at least two engine data obtained by measurement respectively in the zone of two engines of an aircraft and at least two reference data obtained by measurement in t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145365 | Air navigation aid method and system making it possible to maintain vertical margins The invention relates to a calculation method for an aircraft navigation aid system making it possible to maintain a vertical safety margin with an obstruction profile, the aircraft comprising a navigation system, an automatic piloting system, a database system and ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8095252 | Piloting method and device avoiding the pilot induced oscillations A piloting method and device for avoiding pilot induced oscillations filters a piloting order with a non-linear filtering function that is controlled by speed comparison information. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8041472 | Positioning device, and navigation system A positioning device that detects a position of a mobile body with a radio navigation positioning unit includes: first and second autonomous sensors obtaining behavioral information on the mobile body; a position detecting unit obtaining an estimated position and an... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041471 | Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and vertical take-off and landing aircraft control method A vertical take-off and landing aircraft that includes AC motors, which drive fans that propel the aircraft, and a control device for controlling the AC motors adaptively based on a thrust control amount from an attitude controller. In particular, the drive controll... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032268 | Methods and systems for indicating whether an aircraft is below a minimum altitude criterion for a sector Methods and systems are provided for indicating whether an aircraft is below a designated minimum safe altitude level for an altitude sector. A method comprises displaying a graphical representation of a first sector on a display device associated with the aircraft.... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027756 | Integrated approach navigation system, method, and computer program product Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions o... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8010243 | Method and device for lightening loads on the wing system of an aircraft in roll motion A device used in an aircraft with an electrical flight control system to reduce load applied to the wing during a lateral roll maneuver, by comparing a roll control with a threshold, and filtering a control. As a result of this action on the roll control, resulting ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996120 | Method and device for flying an aircraft according to at least one flying line The device for flying an aircraft includes a first unit for determining a control value corresponding to an instruction value representing the actuation of a control member by a pilot, a second unit for determining an effective control value corresponding to the ins... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7693618 | System for monitoring RNP for safe terrain clearance Systems and methods for monitoring Required Navigational Performance (RNP) Procedures and reducing nuisance Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System warnings including a processor, a memory with RNP instructions and data, and a communication device. The processor ac... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7676304 | Procedure to minimize the risk of mid-air collision for personal 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... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7634335 | Distance estimating method for aircraft taking air navigation restrictions into account This method uses for the estimation of a distance, a propagation distance transform considering only the paths which are both accessible to the aircraft taking account of its vertical flight profile and complying with air regulations. The propagated distance Dp... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7561946 | Real time correction of aircraft flight configuration Method and system for monitoring and analyzing, in real time, variation with time of an aircraft flight parameter. A time-dependent recovery band, defined by first and second recovery band boundaries that are spaced apart at at least one time point, is constructed f... | 07/14/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7437245 | Threat avoidance system and methods using adjustments to built-in values A system for enhancing flight safety of a host aircraft receives an adjustment value from a portable memory device; determines a working value of a parameter in accordance with the adjustment value; and provides an advice for threat avoidance in accordance with the ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433779 | Method of following the course of the flight plan of a cooperative aircraft This method relates to the system of ATM air traffic management with cooperative aircraft provided with a flight management computer FMS, that are linked by a data transmission system ATN to the control authority and that have presented a flight plan to the control ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433781 | Device for cartographically representing minimum vertical speeds This device furnishes a map for assisting navigation at low-level altitude while representing the zone flown over with points shown in false colors and/or textures or symbols corresponding to the vertical speeds needed to fly over them. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7422176 | Method for ensuring the safety of an aircraft flying horizontally at low speed A method for ensuring the safety of an aircraft flying horizontally at low speed includes determining a lower speed threshold for the aircraft, measuring the actual speed of the aircraft and comparing the actual speed with the threshold. When the actual speed reache... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415396 | Method and device for monitoring the validity of at least one parameter which is calculated by an anemometeric unit of an aircraft A method and device for monitoring the validity of a parameter calculated by an anemometric unit of an aircraft may employ a first section for taking into account n first data, each dependent on the parameter being monitored and n being greater than or equal to 1. A... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403843 | Systems and methods for automated deselection of flight plan information from a display Systems and methods for automatically switching to a track view mode on a vertical view display. The system determines aircraft position relative to a leg of a flight plan and switches display mode for a navigation vertical display to track view mode, if the display... | 07/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7248219 | Correlation of flight track data with other data sources A method of triangulating aircraft transponder signals using a number of receivers connected to a central station over communication links includes applying at least one logic rule at each receiver to incoming transponder signals to filter redundant transponder sign... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7225076 | Map search system Retrieving an on-map position is executed within a targeted search area that is one of search areas. Search information items are stored for retrieving. Each of the search information items is related to one of the search areas. Area-designating information items ar... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207517 | Munition with integrity gated go/no-go decision A munition is presented which includes an integrity verification system that measures the integrity of the munition. When an integrity threshold is not met, engagement of the munition with a predetermined target is aborted. Also presented is a methodology for gating... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7136011 | System for avoidance of collision between an aircraft and an obstacle A field unit for warning of a danger of collision between an aircraft and an obstacle, in particular a topographical ground obstacle or an obstacle formed by a mast, building or aerial cable structure, comprises a multi-part tubular mast having devices for fixing a ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132960 | Approach monitoring and advisory system and method A system, method, and computer program product are provided for monitoring for high energy landing approaches and advising a flight crew of an aircraft. Specific aircraft energy is predicted at a touchdown zone of a runway. The predicted specific energy is compared ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126534 | Minimum safe altitude warning A ground-based CFIT warning system provides pilots with CFIT alerts. The system is based upon a ground-based tracking system, which provides surveillance of aircraft, such as the AirScene™ multilateration system manufactured by Rannoch Corporation of Alexandria, V... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7043575 | Bus function authentication method, apparatus and computer program Devices connected to a communications bus are selectively accessed to the bus that communicates between one or more devices and a host machine. On the basis of analyzed device characteristics, communication between the device and the host machine via the bus is enab... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7019687 | Methods and apparatus for satellite integrity messaging Methods and apparatus for providing integrity alert information include embedding the integrity alert message in a longer message stream that is broadcast to a receiver in order to meet a predetermined time to alert. In one particular embodiment, the receiver is a G... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7009531 | System for aurally monitoring aeronautical information while in flight A system and a method for providing a continuous, semi-continuous and/or repetitive aural signal to an aircraft pilot indicative of a difference between a set value and an actual value for one or more flight characteristics of the aircraft. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6917860 | Transmission, receipt, and presentation of vehicle specific environmental conditions and hazards information A method for transmitting environmental conditions information, which includes receiving at least some environmental conditions information, scaling the received information such that a scaled environmental conditions value is determined for a particular vehicle, re... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915188 | Controlling aircraft from collisions with off limits facilities A signal is received from an off limits facility and it is determined from the signal whether an aircraft is within a distance of the off limits facility. The course and/or flight of the aircraft is changed if the aircraft is within the distance of the off limits fa... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6886786 | Engine thrust management—new design architecture An engine thrust management system comprising an engine control device, an aircraft flight manual, a flight management device and a cockpit instrument device. The engine control device is operable to calculate a percent maximum available thrust parameter and a perce... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6863242 | Method and system for controlling an aircraft control surface A system for controlling an aircraft control surface may include a control surface having at least two control surface elements mounted to rotate about an axis on a stabilizer element of the aircraft. An actuator with at least two actuating devices moves the control... | 03/08/2005 |
