Actuator provided with a fluid-damped fuse system, and a vehicle provided with the actuator
AssigneeAirbus Helicopters
InventorRomain Nevers
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Abstract
An actuator provided with a motor for moving an output arrangement, the actuator including both an output lever and a fusible connection that acts up to a mechanical torque threshold to constrain the output arrangement and the output lever to move together in rotation about an axis of rotation. The actuator also includes a fluid damper device housed between the output lever and the output arrangement to act, following rupture of the fusible connection, to damp movement of the output lever relative to the output arrangement in rotation about the axis of rotation.
Claims20
An actuator provided with a motor for moving an output arrangement, the actuator including both an output lever and a fusible connection that acts up to a mechanical torque threshold to constrain the output arrangement and the output lever to move together in rotation about an axis of rotation;
- wherein the actuator includes a fluid damper device housed between the output lever and the output arrangement to act, following rupture of the fusible connection, to damp movement of the output lever relative to the output arrangement in rotation about the axis of rotation.
An actuator comprising a motor for moving an output arrangement, the actuator comprising an output lever and a fusible connection that is operable to constrain the output arrangement and the output lever to move together in rotation about an axis of rotation;
- the actuator comprising a fluid damper device disposed between the output lever and the output arrangement that, following rupture of the fusible connection, dampens movement of the output lever relative to the output arrangement in rotation about the axis of rotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.