Aircraft landing gear assembly
AssigneeSafran Landing Systems UK LTD
InventorsRadu Chiritoiu, Daniele Parente
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Abstract
An aircraft landing gear assembly including a structural load bearing beam arranged, in use, to react torsional loads applied to it. The beam has a tubular box section main body having four straight sidewall portions, adjacent sidewall portions being orthogonal to one another and connected by rounded corner portions. Each corner portion has a radius of between 10% and 40% of the width and/or height of the tubular box section main body.
Claims8
An aircraft landing gear assembly including a structural load bearing beam arranged, in use, to react torsional loads applied to it, at least a portion of the beam including a hollow tubular box section profile in a plane perpendicular to a long axis of the beam defined by:
- four straight sidewall portions, adjacent sidewall portions being orthogonal to one another;
- and
- four rounded corner portions connecting each adjacent pair of the four straight sidewall portions;
- wherein the four straight sidewall portions and the four rounded corner portions define a main body with a hollow tubular box section profile having a width and a height;
- and
- each corner portion has a radius of between 10% and 40% of the width and/or height of the hollow tubular box section profile;
- wherein the beam comprises a bogie beam movably coupled to a shock absorbing strut;
- and
- wherein the hollow tubular box section profile extends from a bogie pivot flange configured to receive a bogie pivot pin to at least one axle mounting flange configured to receive a respective axle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.