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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186620 | Adjustable landing gear system A landing gear system includes a shock strut assembly and a linkage member coupled to an aircraft. Preferably, the shock strut assembly and linkage member are oriented or angled relative to one another in a non-parallel relationship. Actuation of the linkage member ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8070095 | Shrinking shock strut system for retractable landing gear A shrinking shock strut system for an aircraft landing gear having a retract actuator that is moveable in length to deploy or retract the landing gear, that includes a shrink strut and a transfer device. The shrink strut may be compressed in length for stowage in th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7942366 | Aircraft landing gear with integrated extension, retraction, and leveling feature Electrically controlled and/or actuated landing gear mechanisms are presented that allow for adjustment of aircraft attitude on the ground as well as for retraction and extension of the landing gear in a single unit. Most preferably, the electric actuator is positio... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7426983 | Landing gear strut damper, and landing gear with independent struts comprising same A damper for an airplane landing gear leg comprises a main strut (11) and a rod piston (13) co-operating with the strut (11) to define a main chamber (15) and annular chamber (16) for hydraulic fluid, and presenting internally two ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7007891 | Retractable landing gear for aircraft Retractable landing gear for an aircraft, the landing gear being of the type that is raised vertically, and comprising a plurality of independent legs, each leg comprising a structural part rigidly secured to a structure of the aircraft, a pivoting rocker beam suppo... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6824100 | Airplane landing gear In one embodiment the present invention includes a landing gear for an airplane comprising a plurality of connectors coupled to the airplane; a first support member coupled to at least one of the plurality of connectors; a second support member pivotally coupled to ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6575405 | Control system and method for a semi-levered landing gear for an aircraft A control system for controlling a tiltable wheel truck of a main landing gear includes an auxiliary strut, a ground mode system operably connected with the aircraft for detecting and providing signals indicative of when the aircraft is on the ground; a t... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6328259 | Variable-load shear collar for helicopter landing gear shock struts A shock strut is provided for a landing gear assembly in an aircraft including a variable load shear collar. The shock strut includes a housing having first and second pistons axially disposed therein. An annular shear collar is rotatably coupled about th... | 12/11/2001 |
| 5908174 | Automatic shrink shock strut for an aircraft landing gear An automatic shrink shock strut for use in conjunction with aircraft landing gear. The landing gear is of the type which includes a shock strut cylinder and a shock strut piston mounted coaxially therewith, and defining there between a shock strut shrink ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5743491 | Very large aircraft landing gear having eight wheel truck Very large aircraft landing gear using single mounted eight wheel bogie on dual shock struts. A primary or main two-stage shock absorber and a semi-articulating secondary or auxiliary single-stage shock absorber, each of which are mounted using the second... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5460340 | Auxiliary control of aircraft landing gear movement Auxiliary control of extension, retraction and pivotal movement of aircraft landing gear when not in use is provided by a method of operation, apparatus for attaching to the landing gear, and an assembly comprising landing gear and apparatus. The apparatu... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5299761 | Raisable landing gear having a shortenable leg The invention relates to raisable landing gear having a shortenable leg, including a shock absorber fitted with a plunger rod, and a linkage connecting said plunger rod to the strut of the shock absorber, under the control of a resilient connecting rod ha... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5158267 | Aircraft shock absorber A shock absorber of the invention comprises a strut, a inner cylinder fixed to the strut and extending inside the strut, and a sliding cylinder mounted to slide inside the strut and associated with the inner cylinder to communicate with the inside thereof... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5100083 | Retractable landing gear with self-braced folding strut A folding strut having upper and lower portions (14, 16/62, 64) are connected together by a pivotal joint (18, 66, 68) for folding movement relative to one another upon extension and retraction of the strut. The upper portion (14, 62) of the strut is pivo... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4984755 | Aircraft landing gear having wheels that swivel while the landing gear is being retracted The landing gear of the invention comprises a strut in which a sliding rod slides, the strut and the sliding rod are connected to each other by a scissors linkage having a top branch and a bottom branch which are connected to each other by articulated mea... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4907760 | Contracting landing gear shock strut Initial retraction of telescoping cylinders (22, 72) forces hydraulic fluid through an orifice area into a low pressure chamber (116). When the cylinders (22, 72) reach a predetermined position, a stop surface (120) carried by the second cylinder (72) eng... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4821983 | Shock absorbing jack, a stay comprising it and landing gear equipped with such a stay The shock absorbing jack of the invention includes essentially a rod in which a sliding piston defines an extension chamber and which itself slides in a body by means of a piston defining a retraction chamber, the body including a throttling device and, o... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4768738 | Flexible solar skin in combination with an airplane A flexible solar skin which absorbs radiant solar energy to convert it into electricity, made possible through a conductive plastic, which conceals a conductive fiber, whereby the fiber directs generated electricity to a terminal in the form of a contact ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4702438 | Adaptive landing gear A light-weight, gas chargeable, self-contained, shock absorber piston assembly which can be retrofitted to various landing gear. The invention permits taxi and take off in either a "normal" or "rough" runway configuration, followed by subsequent landing, ... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4630788 | Aircraft landing gear, in particular for helicopters The landing gear comprises: a rod including nested first and second tubes between which there slides a cylinder whose outer end supports a running gear; a strut surrounding the top of the rod and including a steering mechanism cooperating with a rotary tu... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4561612 | Wheel lever landing gear The nose wheel landing gear has the wheel (23) coupled to the rest of the landing gear by a deformable parallelogram (20, 37, 33, 13) which is located to one side of the wheel (23), the wheel lever (20) which supports the wheel is only slightly longer tha... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4540142 | Nose-wheel type landing gear for aircraft The landing gear comprises a shock absorber (4) having a rod (6) slidable in a cylinder (6), a wheel (12) linked to the cylinder, a guide sheath (14) surrounding the shock absorber (4), releasably engageable means (17) for fixing the cylinder at least in ... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4524929 | Short take off jump mode for airplane landing gear struts A telescoping energy-dissipating oleo landing gear shock strut set which can provide both the main landing gear and forward landing gear function, and which is affixed to an airplane, is restrained in an unenergized, shortened condition. A high pressure g... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4291850 | Contractable shock absorber strut This shock absorber strut incorporates an annular piston between the lower and upper bearings of the shock absorber piston; together with a separator piston in the bore of the shock absorber piston. The volume below the separator piston is filled with hyd... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4284255 | Shock absorbers and shock absorber struts, notably for aerodyne landing gear Shock absorbers and shock absorber jacks each of which comprises a shaft containing a low-pressure chamber and sliding in a first chamber of a first cylinder which is separated from another or second chamber which contains a high-pressure chamber, by mean... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4199119 | Wing mounted retractable aircraft undercarriages A wing mounted retractable aircraft undercarriage with a trailing wheel or wheels comprising a rigid leg casing, pivotally mounted on the wing about a retraction axis, a rocking lever pivoted on the leg casing, supporting the wheel or wheels and mounting ... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4047681 | Apparatus for shortening the strut of a pivotally retractable aircraft landing gear during gear retraction In a landing gear of the type that includes a pivotally retractable shock strut, the overall length of the strut is shortened during retraction by a mechanism that is effective to force the shock strut piston to telescope into the shock strut cylinder. Th... | 09/13/1977 |
