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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077055 | Method and device for filtering windshears alarms for an aircraft Method, device and item of equipment for filtering alarms originating from a windshear detection system embedded in an aircraft being able to emit an alarm. The aircraft has at least one sensor allowing the acquisition of a flight parameter. The device includes: uni... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7557735 | Predictive and reactive windshear detection system and method A method of detecting a windshear hazard on aircraft is disclosed. The method includes determining a first wind velocity of the aircraft at the location of the aircraft using a wind velocity detector. The method also includes determining a second wind velocity at a ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7411519 | System and method for predicting and displaying wake vortex turbulence A circuit and method for predicting an intersection of a host aircraft flight path with the wake vortex of another aircraft. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7394402 | Tailwind alerting system to prevent runway overruns Systems, methods and computer program products for alerting a flight crew during landing that the tailwind exceeds acceptable limits. The system determines a base tailwind threshold speed for a candidate runway based on a performance constant associated with an airc... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7363121 | System, method and apparatus for searching geographic area using prioritized spatial order A spatial data search method, system and apparatus for identifying particular data of significance around a reference vector through the spatial data. The method involves determining a reference vector within a spatial region for which spatial data exists, loading a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333030 | Method and system for preventing an aircraft from penetrating into a dangerous trailing vortex area of a vortex generator The invention relates to methods and devices for aircraft's safe operation and is embodied in the form of a method and system for informing a user, for example an aircraft crew and/or a flight controller, on the probable penetration of the aircraft into dangerous ar... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324002 | Outdoor computer A method for implementing a weather alarm in an outdoor computer includes defining atmospheric-pressure data repeatedly, defining altitude data repeatedly and essentially simultaneously with the atmospheric-pressure data, with the aid of a satellite positioning syst... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7212938 | Method of using a self-locking travel pattern to achieve calibration of remote sensors using conventionally collected data The present invention provides a method to calibrate an on-board remote sensing system using a self-locking travel pattern and target remote sensing data. The self-locking travel pattern includes a number of parallel travel lines having overlapping swath widths betw... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7191983 | Methods and systems for controlling flammability control systems in aircraft and other vehicles Methods and systems for controlling fuel tank flammability control systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system for use with an aircraft or other vehicle includes a flammability control system and a controller operably coupled to the flammability contro... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184896 | System and method for tracking and displaying hazardous material clouds A system for real-time tracking and display of movement of an airborne hazardous agent includes one or more mobile units each having a wind parameter measuring apparatus that provides real-time wind direction and speed, a navigation system that provides a mobile uni... | 02/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7113864 | Fully automated vehicle dispatching, monitoring and billing A system for controlling vehicles to provide transportation services without need for human intervention. A database stores records each documenting needed transportation services. Processing circuitry (which may be one or several networked computers) reviews these ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7093789 | Delta-winged hybrid airship In one aspect, a hybrid airship including an outer shell, a plurality of helium filled gas envelopes, and an all-electric propulsion system may have the shape of a delta-wing. In some embodiments, the hybrid airship may be launched using buoyancy lift alone and aero... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088264 | Flight safety system monitoring combinations of state values A method and system compares combinations of vehicle or aircraft state variables against known combinations of potentially dangerous states. Alarms and error messages are selectively generated based on such comparisons. In one embodiment, pairs of aircraft state var... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081834 | Aviation weather awareness and reporting enhancements (AWARE) system using a temporal-spatial weather database and a Bayesian network model An Aviation Weather Awareness and Reporting Enhancements (AWARE) system provides situational awareness by effectively filtering, analyzing and visualizing aviation weather data and specific hazard alerts in preflight, in-cockpit and controller applications. The AWAR... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7075457 | Energy index for aircraft maneuvers Method and system for analyzing, separately or in combination, kinetic energy and potential energy and/or their time derivatives, measured or estimated or computed, for an aircraft in approach phase or in takeoff phase, to determine if the aircraft is or will be put... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068187 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for unstabilized approach alerting A method, apparatus and computer program product for assisting the pilot of an aircraft in making a go-around decision. Various aircraft parameters are monitored during the approach to land and a risk level assessed. When the risk level exceeds a specified threshold... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061375 | System for warning a failure to wear a seat belt In a system for warning a failure to wear a seat belt to urge a vehicle operator to wear the seat belt, a sound emitter is activated when a vehicle speed is higher than a threshold level and the seat belt is not fastened. The sound emitter cyclically alternates betw... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7030780 | Method for displaying position of an aircraft in a display for air traffic control There is provided a method for displaying aircraft positions, which is capable of effectively avoiding the occurrence of near miss or collision. The method displays the terrain of an air space under air traffic control apparently in three dimensions on a display scr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027898 | Weather information network including graphical display An apparatus for providing weather information onboard an aircraft includes a processor unit and a graphical user interface. The processor unit processes weather information after it is received onboard the aircraft from a ground-based source, and the graphical user... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7017862 | Wake vortex visualizer for an aircraft A wake vortex visualizer for an aircraft having a selfcontained device that is installed within the wing tip to emit a smoke-like trail from the wing tip automatically by the use of simple ball check valve connected between an orifice on the wing tip and a tank of v... | 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 |
| 6980892 | Avionics system and method for providing altitude alerts during final landing approach An avionics system and method is employed for alerting pilots of low premature descent during final landing approach. The method involves determining Final Approach Flight Safety Altitudes for a plurality of runways, identifying which runway an aircraft is likely to... | 12/27/2005 |
| RE38925 | Automatic weather monitoring and adaptive transmitting system A method for automatically providing weather advisories for an airport to pilots comprises monitoring weather conditions at the airport and then generating weather advisories in response to these weather conditions. The broadcast traffic on a common traffic advisory... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6970106 | Device for aiding the visual spotting of an aircraft in flight from another aircraft, also in flight A device for aiding the visual spotting of a second aircraft in flight by the pilot of a first aircraft looking at the sky through the canopy may include an approximately vertical display device and a first device that displays on the display device a representation... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970107 | Flight situation presentation system and method A flight situation presentation system displays a large majority of the information required for piloting an aircraft in an enhanced manner to reduce potential for misinterpretation and instances of piloting error. Approaches include visual integration of flight dat... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963810 | Method and system for locating critical flow feature indicators in three dimensional flow regimes A method for locating two dimensional critical flow features on a surface of a three dimensional body immersed in a fluid stream is presented. The method includes applying a hot film sensor array on the surface of the body. The hot film sensor array includes a plura... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963291 | Dynamic wake prediction and visualization with uncertainty analysis A dynamic wake avoidance system utilizes aircraft and atmospheric parameters readily available in flight to model and predict airborne wake vortices in real time. A novel combination of algorithms allows for a relatively simple yet robust wake model to be constructe... | 11/08/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6903752 | Method to view unseen atmospheric phenomenon using augmented reality The invention is a method for displaying otherwise unseen atmospheric phenomenon using augmented reality (the mixing of real media with computer generated media). The method uses computer generated images to represent existing weather conditions and presents this da... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6828923 | Airborne microwave/infrared wind shear and clear air turbulence detector A system (24) for detecting an air disturbance in front of an aircraft (10) has a controller (26) that is coupled to an image detector (40). Image detector (40) generates an image signal corresponding to heated air in front of the ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6828922 | Synthetic airborne hazard display A system and method for downlinking weather data, generated by existing weather and data sensors, to a ground station. The ground station utilizes data from multiple aircraft to form refined weather information, and uplinks the refined weather information to the air... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6809648 | Aerial sampler system An aerial sampler system includes an enclosure, a transfer system, and a measurement system. The enclosure is connected to an external surface of an aerial vehicle and receives atmospheric flow from the external surface of the aerial vehicle. The enclosure also dire... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6703945 | System and method for predicting and displaying wake vortex turbulence A circuit and method for predicting an intersection of a host aircraft flight path with the wake vortex of another aircraft.... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6700482 | Alerting and notification system An alerting and/or notification system for operator(s) of a vehicle about conditions that affect the operation of the vehicle. The system collects information from one or more hazard warning systems, groups the warnings into different alert categories, an... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6683541 | Vertical speed indicator and traffic alert collision avoidance system A method and device for deriving and displaying advanced TCAS information.... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6653947 | Apparatus for the display of weather and terrain information on a single display A display system having a display screen for graphical display of data, a graphics processor for receiving data from at least a terrain data base and data from a weather radar and for converting the received data into a single data stream to provide an in... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6591171 | Autonomous landing guidance system An aircraft guidance system uses radar imaging to verify airport and runway location and provide navigation updates. The system is applicable to flight operations in low visibility conditions.... | 07/08/2003 |
