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US 12,208,881 B2Granted
Rotary actuation for thin wing applications
AssigneeGoodrich Actuation Systems Limited
InventorStephen Harlow Davies
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Abstract
An actuator system for actuating movement of a control surface of an aircraft wing includes a common input rail connectable to a means for providing movement to said input rail. The system also includes: a plurality of rotary geared actuators “RGAs”; a common output rail connectable to said control surface; wherein each of said plurality of RGAs is connected to said input rail by an individual input clutch and also connected to said output rail by an individual output clutch, and wherein the input clutch functions independently of the output clutch.
Claims12
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- an aircraft wing having a control surface;
- an actuator system for actuating movement of the control surface of the aircraft wing, said system comprising:
- a common input rail connectable to a means for providing movement to said common input rail;
- a plurality of rotary geared actuators (RGAs);
- and
- a common output rail connectable to said control surface;
- wherein each of said plurality of RGAs is connected to said input rail by an individual input clutch;
- wherein each of said plurality of RGAs is also connected to said output rail, wherein the connection to the output rail by each of said plurality of RGAs is by an individual output clutch, and wherein the input clutch functions independently of the output clutch;
- wherein said means for providing movement to said common input rail is connected to said input rail and is provided within said fuselage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.