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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8019492 | Operator fine tracking assist using sensor derived inputs A preferred embodiment of a method for fine-tracking operator assistance for controlling movement of an object toward a target combines an operator input for guiding the object toward the target with a sensor-derived input from sensor measurement of the object's pos... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7930074 | Vertical speed and flight path command module for displacement collective utilizing tactile cueing and tactile feedback A flight control system includes a collective position command module for a lift axis (collective pitch) which, in combination with an active collective system, provides a force feedback such that a pilot may seamlessly command vertical speed, flight path angle or d... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7347090 | Methods and systems for calculating atmospheric vehicle air data Methods and systems for calculating atmospheric vehicle air data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of calculating air data includes acquiring one or more pressure measurements at locations on an outer surface of the aircraft; acquiring one or more measureme... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7139643 | Control device with servocontrol loop, particularly an electro-hydraulic flight control actuator A control device includes a main servocontrol loop having a servocontrolled system, and a compensation device on the input side of the control device. The control device includes an internal loop that receives a first signal derived from the main servocontrol loop a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6998992 | System and an arrangement to determine the position in a hazardous situation The present invention relates to a system and to an arrangement for evaluating in a defined space or area a delimited area (7) in which there is a degree of urgency greater than the degree of urgency in respect of the remainder of said space (1), where... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6349258 | Method for horizontal routing of an aircraft between two waypoints This method meets the constraints dictated by the instructed values of turning radius and by the instructed values of direction of approach in terms of route or course to be maintained at the obligatory points of passage. It includes, at the obligatory st... | 02/19/2002 |
| 5901927 | Ground strike protection function for aircraft autopilot A method and apparatus for use with an aircraft autopilot to prevent an aircraft part from striking the ground during near ground maneuvers by employing a protection circuit between the outer loop and the inner loop of the control chain between the autopi... | 05/11/1999 |
| 4599698 | Aircraft trim actuator shutdown monitor system and method The directions of travel of an inner and an outer loop actuator are monitored for movement in opposite directions within selected ranges and the outer loop actuator is disabled under selected conditions. These conditions may include movement of both the ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4592055 | Outer-loop monitor for aircraft automatic flight control system The sense (direction) of outer-loop commands is compared with the sense (direction) of inner-loop signals in an aircraft AFCS. A disparity in sense indicates an outer-loop failure. To reduce nuisance failures the comparison is made only when inner-loop si... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4580223 | Incorporation of pitch bias actuator function into an existing AFCS An aircraft automatic flight control system (AFCS) includes a pair of fast, limited authority inner loop actuators responsive to signals indicative of aircraft attitude or other flight parameters such as airspeed, the inner loop being recentered by an out... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4500967 | Aircraft short-term roll attitude retention system An automatic flight control system, for an aircraft having a roll attitude retention outer loop actuator (29), a roll stability inner loop actuator (25) and a control stick (26) for positioning control surfaces of the aircraft to control its roll attitude... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4460964 | Multiaxis hardover protection apparatus for automatic flight control systems A hybrid analog/digital autopilot utilizing analog inner loops in each control axis of the aircraft and a digital processor for providing outer loop commands and inner loop gain augmentation commands to the inner loops. The command from the processor to e... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4417308 | Dual inner loop fault inhibit of aircraft outer loop In an automatic flight control system, failure of dual inner loop actuators (12, 13) to track position (22, 23) within a permissible tolerance (182) of each other will cause automatic shut down (185, 190) of an outer loop actuator (37) which is responsive... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4387432 | Pulsed aircraft actuator In an aircraft automatic flight control system, proportional commands (54, 55) provided to fast, limited authority inner loop actuators (12, 13) are integrated (41), and when the integrator output indicates that the inner loop actuators 12, 13 have been d... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4387431 | Roll attitude inhibit of aircraft automatic outer loop In an aircraft automatic flight control system (FIG. 4) the application of force to a control member (35R, FIG. 5) forces (222, 216, 217, 212, 213) the flight path controlling, full authority outer loop to be disengaged. Once disengaged by force, the oute... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4387430 | Pitch stick force inhibit of aircraft automatic outer loop In an aircraft automatic flight control system, a flight path controlling, full authority outer loop actuator (37) operated in response to the integral (41) of commands thereto, is shutdown (111, 113-115) in response to the sensing (31, 32) of force on th... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4385355 | Automatic outer loop centering of aircraft inner loop An aircraft automatic flight control system includes a pair of fast, limited authority inner loop actuators (12, 13) responsive to signals (52-55) indicative of aircraft attitude (68, 69) or other flight parameters such as airspeed (84), the inner loop be... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4330829 | Helicopter flight stability control induced oscillation suppression Oscillations in helicopter attitude sustained by the aerodynamic response of the helicopter to an automatic flight control system which is responsive to an attitude sensor, are eliminated by band reject (notch) filtering of a control system stability comm... | 05/18/1982 |
