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US 12,767,323 B2Granted
Strut and landing gear including strut
AssigneeKorea Aerospace Research Institute
InventorJung Jin Lee
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a strut and a landing gear including the strut, and more particularly, to an disclosure in which a strut is formed of a curved pipe formed of a flexible body to reduce a weight of a component, and at the same time, an impact load of the strut and the landing gear is alleviated through a design of the physical properties and shape of the strut.
Claims11
A strut comprising:
- a first strut and a second strut each configured as a curved hollow pipe;
- a coupling connecting the first strut and the second strut;
- a damper,
- wherein one end of the damper is connected to a front end of the first strut, and other end is connected to a rear end of the second strut, and
- the damper absorbs shock when the first strut and the second strut are deformed by the shock,
- wherein the coupling has a first portion inserted into the first strut and contacting an inner circumferential surface of the first strut, and a second portion inserted into the second strut and contacting an inner circumferential surface of the second strut, and
- wherein the first strut and the second strut are connected to each other by the coupling to form a C-shape,
- wherein a landing gear comprises a mounting unit that supports the strut on an aircraft, the landing gear comprising a wheel that contacts a ground during landing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.