| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4930888 |
Situation display system for attachment to a headgear |
June 5, 1990 |
| A situation display system has a movable section for attachment to a helmet nd a stationary section, including a stationary map providing a real map background for showing situation display elements on the map. The movable section is connected through a flexible cable to a device for the |
| 4928906 |
Remote control system for a rolling flying body |
May 29, 1990 |
| A remote control for a rolling flying body enables that body to also perf pitching movements about its pitch axis and yawing movements about its yaw axis. For this purpose the flying body is equipped with a plurality of control nozzles distributed about the circumference of the flyi |
| 4925134 |
High temperature heat shield system |
May 15, 1990 |
| A high temperature heat shield system for re-entry vehicles and high speed ircraft is assembled from separate insulating panels made of metal foil layers diffusion soldered together and with a ceramic fiber material filled into interspaces between the metal foil layers. In this arrangemen |
| 4829784 |
Method and system for storing inert gas for electric impulse space drives |
May 16, 1989 |
| In a method and system for storing gas, especially an inert gas for elect impulse space drives which use inert gas as a reaction mass, the inert gas is filled into a storage tank in the gaseous and/or liquid state and is then cooled to solidify it into the solid state in which it is the |
| 4796724 |
Process and devices for producing pressure - or shear-waves in a solid medium |
January 10, 1989 |
| A system for producing pressure or shear-waves in a solid medium uses a wave generator with at least one primary induction coil and at least one short-circuited secondary coil. The short-circuited secondary coil is rigidly connected to the solid medium for directly transmitting to the |
| 4794748 |
Sealing device for expansion gaps between evacuated heat insulating wall components |
January 3, 1989 |
| Expansion gaps formed between bellows type side walls of evacuated heat ilating wall components of gas and pressure-tight containers are sealed by elastically deformable corrugated expansion sheet metal strips welded to the surfaces of neighboring wall components, and by specially shape |
| 4794676 |
Clamping device, especially for printed circuit boards |
January 3, 1989 |
| Printed circuit boards may be held in place in a releasable manner in the amping gap of a clamping device having a mounting member and clamping member arranged in parallel to each other to form the clamping gap. The clamping member is pivoted or journalled to the mounting member and an |
| 4793657 |
Suction device for taking-up and depositing of work pieces |
December 27, 1988 |
| A suction device for taking-up, transporting, and depositing work pieces, ch as flat blanks of limp sheet material or panels, is equipped with a plurality of suction tubes. Each suction tube is individually connectable to a source of reduced pressure, whereby a pattern of effective sucti |
| 4790641 |
Space telescope connected to a star tracker |
December 13, 1988 |
| In order to be able to determine in a simple manner the angular deviations etween the optical axes (OT, OS) of a telescope lens (2) and of a star tracker lens (8) which arise during the course of operation of a space telescope due to external influences, the entry (7a) of an orderly a |
| 4790639 |
Rotary mirror for optical systems |
December 13, 1988 |
| A rotary mirror for an optical system has a mirror section with first and cond edges and a bearing connecting to each edge. A reinforcing rib and a slot extend alongside at least the first and second edges, and preferably at a right angle to a rotational axis of the two bearings. Each ri |
| 4779826 |
Mounting device for spacecraft |
October 25, 1988 |
| The panel sections of a solar collector, for example of a spacecraft, are ld or mounted in a folded down condition at least during launching and until they are unfolded. For this purpose a hold down device that must be released for the unfolding, is used. The device includes a piece of |
| 4778343 |
Rotor structure, especially for a rotary wing aircraft |
October 18, 1988 |
| In order to avoid a negative coupling between blade lead-lag movements and lade angle adjustment movements in a helicopter rotor, the angle (.beta.) between a control rod (5) for the blade angle adjustment and an effective damping plane (M) of the rotor is increased as compared to the res |
| 4774514 |
Method and apparatus for carrying out passenger-related and flight attendant-related functions i |
September 27, 1988 |
| On board functions are performed in an aircraft with the aid of a central control computer connected to a plurality of input and output devices including data terminals for passengers and flight attendants, through a data bus system and through decoder/encoder units linking the data |
| 4765568 |
Method and system for controlling the elevator assemblies of an aircraft |
August 23, 1988 |
| A fly-by-wire control system for the elevator assemblies of an aircraft is quipped with a mechanical auxiliary control (8) and with a synchronizing coupling (10). The electrical control links connecting the controlling computers to the elevator drives are each equipped with an override |
| 4762294 |
Elevator control system especially for an aircraft |
August 9, 1988 |
| An elevator control system especially for an aircraft such as an airplane, s equipped with an electrically controllable elevator flap drive system for the elevator flap on each side of the aircraft. Additionally, the system is equipped with a mechanically controlled auxiliary drive system |
| 4762261 |
Riveting robot |
August 9, 1988 |
| A computer aided riveting robot has a machine frame for movably mounting a work piece positioning support and riveting tool positioning carriers. A rectangular three-dimensional coordinate system is defined in the machine frame, whereby an x-y-plane (61) constitutes a reference plane. Th |
| 4759515 |
Drive control for a vertical rudder of an aircraft |
July 26, 1988 |
| A vertical rudder control and drive system for an aircraft, such as an aiane, is equipped with electrically controllable vertical rudder drive systems on each side of the aircraft. Additionally, the control system is equipped with a mechanically controllable auxiliary drive system for t |
| 4758958 |
Method and apparatus for trimming and stabilizing an aircraft |
July 19, 1988 |
| An aircraft, such as a helicopter, is trimmed into a desired position by ducing a trimming control signal during the maneuver for the desired positive and adjusting control forces in response to the trimming control signal. The trimming control signal (.delta..sub.T) is produced by |
| 4722499 |
Auxiliary wing tips for an aircraft |
February 2, 1988 |
| Auxiliary winglets or control surfaces for aircraft wings are tiltable ab an axis extending in the flight direction and about an axis extending substantially perpendicularly to the flight direction. The auxiliary wing tips have a configuration which assure a wing surface continuity, |
| 4717330 |
Apparatus for making a structural component |
January 5, 1988 |
| A structural component having a curved wall, such as an aircraft fuselage pipe, has a grid structure formed of box frames produced by winding tapes of fiber reinforced synthetic material, so-called prepregs, onto mold bodies. These mold bodies are then assembled on a mandrel for coverin |
| 4717224 |
Laser scanning device for fastest possible deflection or sweep velocities |
January 5, 1988 |
| A laser scanning device for fastest possible deflection or sweep velocities s constructed for use in a laser guide or pilot beam system. The scanning device has two symmetric scanning cylinders which each are caused to rotate about their respective rotational axis or axis of symmetry by a |
| 4715589 |
Connecting device comprising a bolt and a loop around the bolt |
December 29, 1987 |
| A connecting device has at least one bolt and a loop of unidirectional fis bound by or embedded in a synthetic matrix material looping around the bolt to form a looping range extending around the bolt. The resistance of the matrix material in the looping range against squeeze-out is |
| 4715571 |
Device for securing a plurality of electrical conductors or cables |
December 29, 1987 |
| A plurality of electrical conductors or cables are held in place by a cirar member, such as a ring or disk, or by two ring or disk elements forming a pair, to form a conductor or cable bunch. For this purpose a plurality of recesses are provided in the circumferential zone of the ring |
| 4712751 |
Tail end structure for an aircraft fuselage |
December 15, 1987 |
| The tail end structure of an aircraft has a cross-sectional configuration th laterally and downwardly extending lobes reaching outside a circular cross-section tail end structure, yet staying within the silhouette of the circular cross-section tail end structure as viewed from the top, t |
| 4710619 |
Apparatus for generating a signal providing information regarding a radiating source, especially |
December 1, 1987 |
| Information regarding an object, especially brightness information, is obned by scanning the object with an optical scanner, especially an infrared scanner to provide a respective analog signal. The analog signal is produced by passing the received radiation past a chopper disk onto a |
| 4709843 |
System for securing wedge sockets |
December 1, 1987 |
| A system for setting or driving wedge sockets into holes of a structural ponent combines a mounting member having two shaft sections forming the socket, with a driver having a pistol shape with a pistol grip and a trigger for releasing an automatic impact force. The driver, for example |
| 4703693 |
Apparatus for controlling a weapon, especially a droppable bomb |
November 3, 1987 |
| A weapon control for a droppable weapon such as a bomb, has at least two sors for producing impact related or environment related signals for a microcomputer forming part of the weapon. The microcomputer evaluates the signals received from the sensors for producing different control sig |
| 4699468 |
Liquid crystal modulator for the transmission of information, including speech, in the visible a |
October 13, 1987 |
| A liquid crystal light modulator is constructed for the transmission of sch signals modulated onto a light carrier passing through gaseous, liquid, and solid media such as air, water, or glass. A large surface area modulation of the light is accomplished in the visible and infrared rang |
| 4699417 |
Disk wheel, especially railroad wheel |
October 13, 1987 |
| A disk wheel, especially a railroad wheel, has a composite construction of single piece metal hub and a single piece metal rim connected to each other by a wheel disk of fiber reinforced composite material providing exclusively adhesive bonds. The wheel disk transmits shearing stress |
| 4696506 |
Wheel set for rail vehicles |
September 29, 1987 |
| A wheel set for rails has a divided axle and two wheels rigidly attached to he respective axle section. The axle sections are interconnected in a force transmitting manner by a clutch for adjusting a differential r.p.m. between the two axle sections. However, the clutch components also pe |
| 4696232 |
Detonator safety device for a weapon |
September 29, 1987 |
| A detonator safety device for a weapon, such as an artillery shell or a war ead, includes a detonator member, a detonator charge and an igniter plate for applying a firing impact with the aid of the igniter plate on a main explosive charge of the weapon in response to the firing of the de |
| 4690616 |
Rotor structure, especially for rotary wing aircraft |
September 1, 1987 |
| A rotor for a rotary wing aircraft has two damping structures on the outs of the blade angle adjustment sleeve. Each damping structure is a sandwich of an elastomeric layer between two stiff cover layers. A two-armed strut passes through the blade neck and is connected at its center |
| 4690615 |
Rotor, especially for rotary wing aircraft |
September 1, 1987 |
| A rotor, especially for rotary wing aircraft, has a rotor hub (1) with one r more torsionally stiff rotor hub arms (1.1) projecting radially outwardly. A rotor blade (2) having a blade root (2.1), a blade wing section (2.3), and a torsionally flexible blade neck (2.2) is attached by b |
| 4690354 |
Geostationary communications satellite |
September 1, 1987 |
| A geostationary sun oriented communications satellite has an operational module with a payload platform rotating at one r.p. day. The antenna components are mounted on the platform. The antenna components are so oriented relative to each other and to the platform that an efficient fo |
| 4676455 |
Guide beam and tracking system |
June 30, 1987 |
| A guide beam and tracking system for acquiring a target and for guiding a ying body into the target operates in accordance with the beam rider principle. A tracking laser beam is imaged into the path of a guide laser beam so that both beams travel through the same optical devices and |
| 4675677 |
Method and system for detecting and combating covered ground targets |
June 23, 1987 |
| A system for manned or unmanned flying bodies detects covered or hidden targets on the ground by using relatively "longwave" radar radiation for immediately attacking such ground targets, which may be covered by trees for example, but located on a strip of ground extending with a given w |
| 4674717 |
Aircarft wing |
June 23, 1987 |
| An aircraft wing is equipped with at least one low compression fan which blows into a longitudinal flow channel extending lengthwise or spanwise of the wing and leading into air blowing nozzle arranged along the upper wing surface where the reduced pressure is largest for directly mixing |
| 4674715 |
Measuring arrangement for determining the attitude of an earth satellite |
June 23, 1987 |
| The attitude of a satellite in an earth orbit is determined by a measuring arrangement which includes the body (1) of the satellite oriented with regard to the sun and a functional component (2) rotationally connected to the satellite body (1). The functional component 2, such as a turnt |
| 4674707 |
Apparatus for stabilizing a flying body |
June 23, 1987 |
| The flight path of a flying body, such as an artillery shell, is stabilized gainst disturbing forces and against pendulum type motions by fluid steering jets ejected from said flying body for causing forces countering the disturbing forces. The steering jets pass through a fluid jet d |
| 4669819 |
Connector for coupling a medical laser tool to a laser |
June 2, 1987 |
| A connector for coupling a medical laser tool to a laser has a housing with coupling fitting at one end which is plugged into a laser receptacle and with a light conductor cable connection at the other end. The light conductor cable in turn is connected to the laser tool. The coupling |
| 4669682 |
Guide beam and tracking system |
June 2, 1987 |
| A guide beam and tracking system for steering a flying body toward a target n accordance with the beam rider principle, is constructed for use under adverse weather conditions. Even under such adverse weather conditions a highly accurate target acquisition is assured due to the use of opt |
| 4667598 |
Method and apparatus for detecting different detonating conditions for a follow-up charge |
May 26, 1987 |
| The conditions for detonating a follow-up charge in a dual stage weapon are etected for detonating the follow-up charge either instantaneously or after a time delay. An instantaneous detonation is caused when the dual stage weapon should not penetrate sufficiently through a target surface |
| 4660787 |
Food supply system for an aircraft |
April 28, 1987 |
| A food supply system is adapted for installation in an aircraft having an upper and a lower deck. A pantry is located on the upper deck. A food supply carts carrying platform is arranged on the lower deck for cooperation with the pantry on the upper deck. A lifting mechanism is arran |
| 4658659 |
Gyroscope |
April 21, 1987 |
| A gyroscope with a rotor which rotates about a nonrotating axis is simple its structure and has but a few movable parts because the rotor axis (2) is divided into two sections by an articulation piece (8), whereby one section (2a) is connected with the housing (11) and the other section |
| 4658265 |
Foldable and unfoldable antenna reflector |
April 14, 1987 |
| An antenna reflector, for example for a satellite or spacecraft, has ribs urnalled to a central body by a first journal axis. Each rib has a radially inner section tiltable and lockable relative to the central body, and a radially outer section journalled to the inner rib section at a |
| 4656920 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically supporting a high stress structure |
April 14, 1987 |
| Structures subject to a high operational stress, such as weapon launchers, ombustion chambers, artillery barrels and the like, are strengthened dynamically by a counter-pressure generated simultaneously with the load causing the operational stress. The counter-pressure causes a dynamic |
| 4655413 |
Apparatus for improving aerodynamic flow conditions at the air intake of gas turbine engines |
April 7, 1987 |
| Aerodynamic flow conditions at the air intake of gas turbine engines, espally aircraft engines, comprising boundary layer deflectors are improved by movably arranging the boundary layer deflectors so that they may be retracted flush into the aircraft fuselage during take-off and low |
| 4653842 |
Block type electrical terminal connector |
March 31, 1987 |
| A block type electrical terminal connector, especially for use in aircraft nd spacecraft, has a pot-shaped housing of electrically insulating material permanently closed at its bottom and closable at its open top by a cover. A single piece contact bank for connecting groups of contact pin |
| 4643374 |
Steering apparatus for a flying body |
February 17, 1987 |
| 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 alone or as a support steering syste |
| 4642652 |
Unfoldable antenna reflector |
February 10, 1987 |
| An umbrella type unfoldable antenna reflector net is supported by carrier bs extending radially from a carrier body and by auxiliary ribs extending between adjacent carrier ribs. Bracing wires are connected between the carrier ribs and the auxiliary ribs. The tension of the bracing wires |
