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US 12,325,514 B2Granted
LED tail rotor safety and status indication lighting system
AssigneeTextron Innovations Inc.
InventorMathew Chapdelaine
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Abstract
One embodiment is a rotorcraft comprising a fuselage; an empennage at an aft end of the fuselage; a tail rotor connected to the empennage; and a tail rotor guard (TRG) around the tail rotor, the TRG shrouding to the tail rotor; and a light emitting diode (LED) lighting element integrated into at least one surface of the TRG.
Claims10
A rotorcraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- an empennage at an aft end of the fuselage;
- a tail rotor connected to the empennage;
- a tail rotor guard (TRG) around the tail rotor, the TRG shrouding to the tail rotor;
- and
- a light emitting diode (LED) lighting element integrated into at least one surface of the TRG;
- wherein a state of the LED lighting element indicates a status of the rotorcraft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.