Airplane fuel contaminant detection system
AssigneeCoulson Aviation (USA) Inc
InventorsBritton Coulson, Wayne Coulson
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Abstract
An aircraft-based fuel quality monitoring and alerting system is disclosed herein. The aircraft-based fuel quality monitoring and alerting system can include a first sensor configured to output a signal associated with contamination of fuel entering an aircraft through a first fuel inlet. The system can further include a processor configured to determine a first contamination level of the fuel based on the signal and an alerting system configured to deliver an alert if the first contamination level is outside a predetermined range.
Claims24
An aircraft-based fuel quality monitoring system, comprising:
- a first sensor configured to output a signal associated with contamination of fuel entering an aircraft through a first fuel inlet;
- a processor configured to determine a first contamination level of the fuel based on the signal;
- and
- an alerting system configured to deliver an alert via a pilot interface inside the aircraft if the first contamination level is outside a predetermined range,
- wherein the pilot interface comprises a pilot input system, and
- wherein the alerting system is configured to deliver the alert until the alert is extinguished from the pilot interface by an input on the pilot input system.
An aircraft comprising:
- a first sensor configured to output a signal associated with contamination of fuel entering the aircraft through a first fuel inlet;
- a processor configured to determine a first contamination level of the fuel based on the signal;
- and
- an alerting system comprising a pilot interface configured to deliver an alert if the first contamination level is outside a predetermined range,
- wherein the pilot interface comprises a pilot input system, and
- wherein the alerting system is configured to deliver the alert until the alert is extinguished from the pilot interface by an input on the pilot input system.
A method for monitoring aircraft fuel quality, comprising:
- outputting, by a sensor disposed in an aircraft, a signal associated with contamination of fuel entering an aircraft through a fuel inlet;
- determining, by a processor, a contamination level of the fuel based on the signal;
- delivering an alert, by an alerting system, if the contamination level is outside a first predetermined range;
- outputting, by one of an audio system or a display system, a first alert for a first predetermined time period, as fuel continues entering the aircraft;
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- outputting, by the other of the audio system or the display system, a second alert after the first predetermined time period, as fuel continues entering the aircraft,
- wherein the alerting system delivers a first alert level if the contamination level is outside the first predetermined range, and the alerting system delivers a second alert level if the contamination level is outside the predetermined range for a predetermined consecutive number of epochs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.