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US 11,424,605 B2Granted
Aircraft lightning avoidance systems and methods
AssigneeTextron Innovations Inc.
InventorPhalgun Madhusudan
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Abstract
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method is disclosed. The method includes: detecting, on or proximate to one or more surfaces of an aircraft, a presence of an electric-field above a predetermined threshold; and in response to the detection, activating one or more beam sources to generate an ionized column of charge away from the aircraft.
Claims13
A method comprising:
- detecting, on or proximate to one or more surfaces of an aircraft, a presence of an electric field above a predetermined threshold;
- and
- in response to the detection, activating one or more beam sources to generate an ionized column of charge away from the aircraft.
A system comprising:
- one or more sensors coupled to one or more aircraft surfaces and configured to detect whether a presence of an electric field, on or proximate to the one or more aircraft surfaces, is above a predetermined threshold;
- and
- one or more control systems coupled to the one or more sensors, wherein the one or more control systems are configured to receive sensor data from the one or more sensors and to activate one or more beam sources to generate an ionized column of charge away from an aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.