Braked aircraft wheel
AssigneeSafran Landing Systems
InventorsArnaud Gapin, Julien Marques
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Abstract
An aircraft wheel including a rim fitted with rotor disks driven in rotation with the rim by first splines secured to the rim and engaged in notches in the rotor disks, stator disks interposed between the rotor disks and provided with notches engaged on second splines secured to a brake torque tube arranged to be fastened to an axle carrying the aircraft wheel, one or more heatpipe extending in one or more of the first and second splines parallel to a plane containing an axis of rotation of the wheel, the heatpipe having an end projecting outside the aircraft wheel, and one or more heatsinks secured to the end of the heatpipe.
Claims13
An aircraft wheel comprising:
- a rim connected by a web to a hub and fitted with rotor disks driven in rotation with the rim by first splines secured to the rim and engaged in notches in the rotor disks;
- stator disks interposed between the rotor disks and provided with notches engaged on second splines secured to a brake torque tube arranged to be fastened to an axle carrying the aircraft wheel, the rotor disks and the stator disks being received in an annular space defined between the rim and the hub;
- at least one heatpipe extending in at least one of the first and second splines and in a plane containing an axis of rotation of the aircraft wheel, the at least one heatpipe having an end projecting outside the aircraft wheel;
- and
- at least one heatsink secured to said end of the at least one heatpipe,
- wherein the at least one heatpipe extends in the annular space without ever crossing the web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.