Landing gear
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorMasaru Tomimatsu
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Abstract
A landing gear includes: a wheel support member including a first portion for rollably supporting a wheel, and a second portion extending from the first portion toward a fuselage in a direction of an axis of the first portion and supporting the first portion such that the first portion is rotatable about the axis; a swing support member for supporting the second portion of the wheel support member such that the second portion is swingable relative to the fuselage; a retraction actuator for swinging the wheel support member to retract the wheel into the fuselage and deploy the wheel from the fuselage; a brace attached to the fuselage and supporting the wheel support member; and a joint connecting the brace to the first portion of the wheel support member. The joint is disposed closer to the wheel than to the swing support member.
Claims6
A landing gear comprising:
- a wheel support member including a first portion configured to rollably support a wheel, and a second portion extending from the first portion toward a fuselage in a direction of an axis of the first portion and configured to support the first portion in a manner so that the first portion is rotatable about the axis;
- a swing support member configured to support the second portion of the wheel support member in a manner so that the second portion is swingable relative to the fuselage;
- a retraction actuator configured to swing the wheel support member to retract the wheel into the fuselage and deploy the wheel from the fuselage;
- a brace attached to the fuselage and configured to support the wheel support member;
- and
- a joint configured to connect the brace to the first portion of the wheel support member,
- wherein the joint is disposed closer to the wheel than to the swing support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.