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https://drivepatents.com/patents/994086 · 9 Jan 2013
A control system for providing electrical power to an electronic flight bag device on an aircraft. The control system including a power switching component coupled to a plurality of power sources and at least one electronic flight bag device. The power swi...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/997520 · 10 Oct 2012
A system for stabilizing combustion in a gas turbine engine comprises a) optical sensing means embedded within a fuel injector for observing conditions within a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine; b) means for detecting combustion instabilities bas...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1003019 · 25 Apr 2012
Spring set configurations that include an advantageous combination of spring geometries are disclosed. Spring elements having curved and straight sections, orientation of spring element anchor points with respect to the common radius, orientation of spring...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1070109 · 15 Feb 2006
A wide field scanning laser obstacle awareness system (LOAS) for use on-board an aircraft is provided. The LOAS serves for alerting an operator of obstacles posing a risk of collision with said aircraft. The system comprising: a light source for generating...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1072069 · 7 Dec 2005
A block arrangement of optical elements is provided for use as a transmitter/receiver for a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system. The block arrangement comprises: a plurality of glass modules aligned together as a block to form a plurality of optical...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1072669 · 9 Nov 2005
A fuel injector for a gas turbine combustor is disclosed which includes a feed arm (22) having a flange (24) for mounting the injector within the combustor and a fuel nozzle (26) depending from the feed arm for injecting fuel into the combustor for combust...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1075363 · 3 Aug 2005
A method of detecting contaminants on a window surface of a viewing system comprises the steps of: reflecting light off of contaminants on the window surface; capturing the reflected light in an image; converting the image into image data; and processing t...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1092943 · 1 Oct 2003
A distributed laser based obstacle awareness system for use on-board an aircraft comprises: a plurality of obstacle detecting sensors disposable at a corresponding plurality of locations of the aircraft for emitting laser energy from the aircraft into a pr...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1100443 · 13 Nov 2002
A multi-function probe system (14, 16, 18, 50, 70) that provides redundancy for measurements and compensates for effects of sideslip of an aircraft (10) includes at least two probes (14, 16) that are symmetrically located on the opposite sides of the aircr...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102025 · 4 Sep 2002
A smart probe assembly (16,20) for an aircraft 12, includes pressure sensing ports (16C,20C) for sensing pressures indicating angle of attack, static pressure and pitot pressure, a circuit housing (28,30) mounted on said probe includes cards for a central ...