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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7006905 | Method and device for allocating thrust Force balance and moment balance associated with thrust of air and water craft equipped with thrust generators are preset in view of non-linear characteristics and dynamic characteristics of thrust generators. A performance index for minimizing thrusts generated by ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6941195 | Method and device for allocating thrust Force balance and moment balance associated with thrust of air and water craft equipped with thrust generators are preset in view of non-linear characteristics and dynamic characteristics of thrust generators. A performance index for minimizing thrusts generated by ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6678567 | Pilot input device to control direction, altitude, and speed of aircraft An integrated side stick controller combines air speed, turning and altitude changing rate control into one pilot input control device. Movements of the integrated side stick controller will perform manipulations on aircraft surfaces devices in order to m... | 01/13/2004 |
| 5799902 | Economical launch vehicle A low-cost, liquid-propellant rocket launch vehicle having a central pod that carries an optional final-stage rocket engine cluster, and having additional engine clusters arranged in diametrically opposed pairs of clusters. The pairs of clusters are burne... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5779169 | Aircraft engine inlet hot gas and foreign object ingestion reduction and pitch control system An aircraft for vertical or short take off and landing operations having two main lift nozzles, both positioned at or near the aircraft center of gravity utilizes one or more jet screen nozzles, arranged in a variety of shapes and combinations, dischargin... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5683060 | Air vehicle An air vehicle that includes a body lower portion, a body intermediate portion, body lower portion, a solar panel, elevating apparatus, gimbling apparatus, and inflatable landing gear. The body lower portion has a body lower portion outer surface and cont... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5505408 | Differential yoke-aerofin thrust vector control system An actuation system for controlling the steerable nozzle of a missile or like vehicle is combined with an aerofin control system, both of which are driven in unison by associated drive motors and gear assemblies, one set for each aerofin. The nozzle steer... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5456429 | Thrust maneuver system A thrust maneuver system for steerable vehicles comprising a plurality of thrusters of varying impulsive force, some of which provide a base force, and others varying multiples of the base force. The forces may be used additively or subtractively to obtai... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5273237 | Forebody nozzle for aircraft directional control A system for augmenting yaw control in an aircraft is described which comprises first and second thrust nozzles disposed on the upper surface of the aircraft forebody aft of the forebody nose apex a distance of about 0.5 times the forebody diameter at abo... | 12/28/1993 |
| 4947096 | Method and apparatus for controlling multiple engine aircraft Control means and method for steering an aircraft is disclosed. The aircraft includes engines positioned on opposite sides of its longitudinal axis. The method comprises: selecting an aircraft heading; sensing a deviation from said heading; and varying th... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4935682 | Full authority engine-out control augmentation subsystem A full authority engine-out control augmentation subsystem for use in a flight control system to assist a pilot and/or lateral-directional control subsystem in compensating for the yawing moment produced by the differential engine thrust that occurs when ... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4643374 | Steering apparatus for a flying body The steering of a jet propelled flying body is improved by positioning jet eflector flaps into the propulsion jet for deflecting the propulsion jet. The deflector flaps can steer the flying body automatically in response to a flight control unit either alo... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4569493 | Integrated multi-role variable sweep wing aircraft Canards are pivotally mounted on the fuselage of a variable sweep wing jet aircraft and project laterally with respect to the fuselage forwardly of the wings. The canards are positioned and configured to produce pitch control moments about the center of g... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4447022 | Reduced noise monolithic wing-stabilizer aircraft A sound reducing combined low mid-wing and horizontal stabilizer airplane with near longitudinal center line thrust twin engines having intensified aileron, elevator and rudder control. Small jet engines rigidly attached to the ailerons intensify attitude... | 05/08/1984 |
