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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8447443 | Systems and methods for peak-seeking control A computerized system and method for peak-seeking-control that uses a unique Kalman filter design to optimize a control loop, in real time, to either maximize or minimize a performance function of a physical object (“plant”). The system and method achieves more ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447441 | Aircraft power management system A method and associated system for managing power within an aircraft electrical system, the aircraft having a generator driven by a gas turbine engine for the supply of electrical power to the system, wherein the generator and electrical system are connected to a co... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447442 | Method for assisting in rejoining a vertical descent trajectory and associated device A method is provided for assisting in rejoining a vertical descent trajectory that an aircraft is assumed to have to follow, using a flight management system FMS embedded onboard the aircraft, and includes the following steps: calculation of a vertical deviation VDE... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8442703 | Turning-stabilized estimation of the attitude angles of an aircraft The present invention relates to estimating the attitude angles of an aircraft (1). The estimated attitude angles are generated by a device (9) that performs algorithmic integration on inertial measurements indicative of an angular velocity and of a li... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442701 | Dynamic roll angle stall protection for an aircraft A method, apparatus, and computer program product are present for operating an aircraft. A roll angle limit is identified using a load factor selected to allow a lateral maneuvering capability of the aircraft by forming an identified roll angle limit in response to ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442704 | System and method for computing an equi-distance point (EDP) for aircrafts A method for dynamically computing an equi-distance point (EDP) for an aircraft includes receiving at least two reference points for landing the aircraft upon an occurrence of an emergency, determining a remaining flight path for the aircraft based on a current loca... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442702 | Fault diagnosis device and method for optimizing maintenance measures in technical systems The present invention provides a fault diagnosis device for optimizing maintenance measures in a system, in particular a flying object. The diagnosis device has a storage unit for storing diagnosis rules, which each have a fault condition indicating the presence of ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8437888 | Distributed architecture for all radionavigation aids The present invention relates to a distributed architecture for all aerial navigation aids. So that this architecture makes it possible to reduce the weight and/or the bulk of the cables linking the antennas to the corresponding equipment, as well as the weight and/... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437889 | Test equipment for testing an additional center tank (ACT) system of an aircraft The present invention provides test equipment for testing an additional center tank (ACT) system of an aircraft. The ACT system comprising control means configured to perform functions of an Auxiliary Fuel Management Computer (AFMC) and an Auxiliary Level Sensing Co... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437887 | Method for optimizing a fuel consumption of an aircraft during the flight thereof The invention relates to a method for optimizing the fuel consumption of an aircraft during flight. At a given point of the flight, a fuel excess (EXTRA) is determined relative to the statutory loads depending on the flight profile and weather conditions forecast fo... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437890 | Integrated framework for vehicle operator assistance based on a trajectory prediction and threat assessment Various types and levels of operator assistance are performed within a unified, configurable framework. A model of the device with a model of the environment and the current state of the device and the environment are used to iteratively generate a sequence of optim... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8433475 | Maintenance computer system for an aircraft A maintenance computer system for an aircraft, including a network partitioned into a secured avionics zone and an open zone. The system includes a first software module accommodated in the avionics zone and a second software module accommodated in the open zone, th... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433458 | Method and device for assisting in the preparation and management of missions in an aircraft Aiding preparation and management of aircraft missions includes receiving digital data including avionic type data and open-world type data and comparing the digital data with a set of stored data. When at least one item of the digital data differs from an equivalen... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433459 | Aircraft guidance system for assisting in airport navigation An aircraft guidance system for assisting in airport navigation includes: at least one airport database comprising topology data of an airport, called airport DB; at least one configuration database comprising aircraft configuration data and the position of a guidan... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433457 | Environmental condition detecting system using geospatial images and associated methods An environmental condition detecting system may include an image processor cooperating with a database for generating a reference geospatial image corresponding to the collected geospatial image, a change detector cooperating with the image processor for detecting a... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428872 | System and method for entry of taxi route on control display unit A system and method is provided for receiving and displaying a taxiway navigation route on a control display unit having at least one entry field and a plurality of display lines. A plurality of taxi route segments are received from an entry field. The plurality of ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8423206 | Variable maximum commandable roll rate for directional control during engine-out rolling maneuver A system and a method for varying a maximum roll rate command for ensuring sufficient directional control during an engine-out rolling maneuver of a multi-engine aircraft. For a multi-engine airplane with a roll rate command flight control system, the primary flight... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8417410 | Operations support systems and methods with power management A power management system includes a data fusion unit configured to receive first health indicators from an engine diagnostics module and second health indicators from a power assurance module. The data fusion unit is configured to data fuse the first and second hea... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8417395 | Hierarchical closed-loop flow control system for aircraft, missiles and munitions The present invention relates to a missile or aircraft with a hierarchical, modular, closed-loop flow control system and more particularly to aircraft or missile with a flow control system for enhanced aerodynamic control, maneuverability and stabilization. The pres... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8417396 | Air traffic control method A method of operating an air traffic control system may include receiving, by a control system, an instruction from a control system user. The method may further include providing, by the control system, the instruction to an airplane via a data link between the con... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8412388 | Assisted piloting method and device for an aircraft for use in the event of a first limit indicator breaking down An assisted piloting method for an aircraft having at least two engines (2, 3) includes monitoring a set of parameters (Ng, T4, Tq) of the engines. A first limit indicator (10) displays information relating to a value of a limiting parameter of ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8412389 | Integrity monitoring of inertial reference unit Systems, methods, and machine-executable programming products adapted for the control of aircraft or other vehicles by receiving from at least one Inertial Reference System (IRS), including a plurality of Inertial Reference Units (IRUs), signals representing vehicle... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8406939 | Systems and methods for RTA control of multi-segment flight plans with smooth transitions Methods, systems and device are provided for smoothing a required time of arrival (RTA) speed transition for an aircraft in a multi-segmented speed profile including at least one preceding region with a first predetermined speed pad and at a speed constrained region... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8401716 | Flight control systems A system and method for a controlling an aircraft with flight control surfaces that are controlled both manually and by a computing device is disclosed. The present invention improves overall flight control operation by reducing the mechanical flight control surface... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401717 | Actuator control reducing the level of vibration of an associated flexible structure The aim of the method of controlling at least one mechanical system exhibiting at least one flexible structure element and at least one actuator or group of actuators is to reduce the level of vibrations of said element while controlling the actuator or group of act... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401718 | Method of and system for maintaining operating performance of a transparency Repair or replacement of a transparency mounted in body of a vehicle, e.g. an aircraft when one or more properties of the transparency is (are) operating outside of an acceptable limit(s) is arranged by monitoring operating performance of a property of the transpare... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401790 | Computing-time-efficient route determination along several preset path points with given connecting routes in-between A process for determining a route along more than two mutually consecutive preset path points with given connecting routes in-between. In this case, a plurality of connecting routes is given between at least one pair of two mutually consecutive path points. Respecti... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8396612 | Avionic system and architecture with integrated power management An avionic system includes computers (11a, . . . , 1n, 12a, . . . 12n, 13a . . . 13n) of the generic computer type that can be adapted by software programming to avionic functions fo... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8396614 | Graphical depiction of four dimensional trajectory based operation flight plans The different advantageous embodiments provide a system comprising a user interface and a computer. The user interface comprises a display. The computer is configured to display information about time and position of an aircraft in relation to a number of waypoints ... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8396613 | Method and apparatus for providing power in an aircraft to one or more aircraft systems A method and apparatus is disclosed in which an aircraft system such as the landing gear system or braking system is operated at least partially under power provided by a generator driven by the wheels of the landing gear. ... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8392037 | Stabilized approach to a point in degraded visual environment A flight control system includes a fly by wire system operable to provide predictive termination point symbology overlaid on a synthetic imagery displayed by a display system in response to a control system and a sensor system. A method to facilitate a VTOL aircraft... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8392475 | Method and a device for flying safely at low altitude in an aircraft The present invention relates to a method of flying safely and at low altitude in an aircraft, in which method unsafe relief (R0) of terrain is determined as is the position of at least one high point (4, 5) representing an obstacle (4′, 5′)... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8386093 | Multi-axis serially redundant, single channel, multi-path fly-by-wire flight control system A multi-axis serially redundant, single channel, multi-path fly-by-wire control system comprising: serially redundant flight control computers in a single channel where only one “primary” flight control computer is active and controlling at any given time; a mat... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8386094 | Taxi brake inhibit system A taxi brake inhibit system overcomes problems of discontinuities in pedal “feel” that can occur by use of a taxi brake inhibit system, by adding a new pedal “feel” logic in which twice the brake force is commanded for a given brake pedal application when ta... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8386092 | Hold line awareness using tactile devices A hold line awareness system for alerting an occupant of an aircraft that the aircraft is approaching a hold line at an airport. In one broad aspect the invention includes an airport database located on an aircraft. The airport database is configured to store locati... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8380366 | Apparatus for touch screen avionic device An apparatus having a graphical touch screen for flight planning and navigation of an aircraft by a pilot. The touch screen may be a graphical interface operable to detect the presence and location of a physical object on or in proximity to the touch screen. The tou... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8380367 | Adaptive surveillance and guidance system for vehicle collision avoidance and interception A surveillance and guidance method and system for use with autonomously guided, man-on-the-loop or man-in-the-loop guided vehicles where the presence of obstacles must be considered in guiding the vehicle towards a target includes a navigation system configured to d... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8380368 | Radio controlled aircraft, remote controller and methods for use therewith A radio controlled (RC) aircraft includes a receiver that is coupled to receive an RF signal from a remote control device, the RF signal containing command data in accordance with a first coordinate system, wherein the first coordinate system is from a perspective o... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8380365 | Method and a system for determining and indicating a sound nuisance level outside an aircraft A method of determining a sound nuisance level outside an aircraft, wherein an aircraft is fitted with a plurality of external microphones, then during a flight of the aircraft, sound levels are measured using on-board microphones and at least two components are mea... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8380364 | Manual and computerized flight control system with natural feedback A system and method for a controlling an aircraft with flight control surfaces that are controlled both manually and by a computing device is disclosed. The present invention improves overall flight control operation by reducing the mechanical flight control surface... | 02/19/2013 |
