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US 11,686,634 B2Granted
Pylon engine mount health monitoring system
AssigneeSimmonds Precision Products, Inc.
InventorVarun Kumar
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Abstract
A system comprises an engine mounted to an aircraft wing by a plurality of clevis pins, a respective strain sensor mounted in at least one of the clevis pins, and a monitoring system operatively connected to each respective strain sensor to monitor stress in each of the clevis pins having a respective strain sensor.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- an engine mounted to an aircraft wing by a plurality of clevis pins;
- a respective strain sensor mounted in a hollow core of at least one of the clevis pins;
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- a monitoring system operatively connected to each respective strain sensor to monitor stress in each of the clevis pins having a respective strain sensor.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- monitoring stress with a respective strain sensor in a hollow core in at least one clevis pin in a plurality of clevis pins in a load bearing path from an aircraft wing to an aircraft engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.