# US 2010/0168935 A1 · Method of and system for maintaining operating performance of a transparency

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- Number: US 2010/0168935 A1
- Document ID: US20100168935A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 12/345,932
- Filed: 2008-12-30
- Published: 2010-07-01
- Earliest claimed: 2008-12-30
- Assignees: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
- Inventors: Ali N. Rashid; Monroe A. Stone; James F. Priddy, JR.
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20100168935A1

## CPC

- B64C 1/1484: {Windows (B64C1/1492 takes precedence)}
- G06Q 10/20: Administration of product repair or maintenance
- G07C 5/006: {Indicating maintenance}
- G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)}
- Y10T 29/49718: Repairing
- B64C: AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

Repair or replacement of a transparency mounted in body of a vehicle, e.g. an aircraft when one or more properties of the transparency is (are) operating outside of an acceptable limit(s) is arranged by monitoring operating performance of a property of the transparency, e.g. by mounted a sensor, e.g. a sensor for detecting moisture; a sensor for detecting impacts and vibrations; a sensor for detecting fractures; a sensor for detecting electric arcing, and a sensor for measuring temperature of an electrically conductive coating, on the transparency. Scheduling repair or replacement of the transparency at a geographical area when the operating performance of the property is outside an acceptable operating performance limit, and forwarding the schedule to the vehicle and to a maintenance location to prepare for the repair or replacement of the transparency at the geographical work area.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of arranging repair or replacement of a transparency when a property of the transparency is operating outside of an acceptable limit, wherein the transparency is mounted in body of a vehicle, the method comprising:
monitoring operating performance of the property of the transparency;
scheduling repair or replacement of the transparency at a geographical area when the operating performance of the property is outside an acceptable operating performance limit, and
forwarding the schedule to the vehicle and to a maintenance location to prepare for the repair or replacement of the transparency at the designated geographical work area.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1 wherein the vehicle is an aircraft and the monitoring operating performance comprises providing the transparency with a sensor to monitor operating performance of the property of the transparency and to provide a signal having operating performance of the property.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2 wherein the signal is a first signal, and further comprising forwarding the first signal to a first monitoring system positioned in the aircraft, and transmitting a second signal to a second monitoring system positioned outside of the aircraft, wherein the second signal comprises information from at least one item from the group of items comprising the first signal, the acceptable operating performance of the property, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method according to claim 3 wherein the aircraft is a first aircraft and the second monitoring system also receives information regarding operating performance of a property of a transparency mounted in a second aircraft.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The method according to claim 3 wherein the scheduling repair or replacement comprises the second monitoring system determining time period in which repair or replacement should be made; designating the geographical work area; arranging for the aircraft, personnel, equipment and/or parts to be available at the geographical work area.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method according to claim 5 wherein original flight plan for the aircraft has no scheduled stop at the geographical work area, or the original flight plan for the aircraft has a scheduled stop at the geographical work area.

### Claim 7 (depends on 3)

The method according to claim 3 wherein the second signal is transmitted to the second monitoring system by transmitting the second signal from the aircraft to a first receiving and transmitting tower, or to a receiving and transmitting satellite, and transmitting the second signal from the receiving and transmitting tower, or receiving and transmitting satellite, to the second monitoring system.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method according to claim 7 wherein forwarding the schedule comprises providing a third signal transmitting information having at least one of the items selected from the group of items comprising the time period in which the repair to, or replacement of, the transparency should be made; designating the geographic work area; arranging for the aircraft, personnel, equipment and/or parts to be available at the geographic work area to repair or replace the transparency, and transmitting the third signal from the second monitoring system to at least one of the following: the aircraft, a third monitoring system, a fourth monitoring system, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method according to claim 8 wherein the third signal is transmitted from the second monitoring system to the receiving and transmitting satellite, or to a receiving and transmitting tower, and transmitted from the receiving and transmitting satellite, or transmitting and receiving tower to at least one of the following: the aircraft, the third monitoring system, the fourth monitoring system, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The method according to claim 8 wherein the third signal is transmitted to the third monitoring system, and further comprising acting on the information provided by the third signal to arrange for the personnel, equipment and/or parts to repair or replace the transparency to be available at the geographic work area.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method according to claim 10 further comprising transmitting the third signal to the fourth monitoring system wherein the fourth monitoring system is located at the geographic work area.

### Claim 12 (depends on 3)

The method according to claim 3 wherein the transparency is an aircraft laminated windshield having two or more glass and/or plastic sheets.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method according to claim 12 wherein the sensor is selected from the group of a sensor for detecting moisture; a sensor for detecting impacts to, or vibration of, the windshield; a sensor for detecting a fracture in one of the sheets; a sensor for detecting electric arcing; a sensor for detecting temperature changes of an electrically conductive member, and combinations thereof, wherein the sensor is mounted on a surface of one of the sheets between first and second outer major surfaces of the transparency.

### Claim 14

A system for arranging repair to, or replacement of, a transparency when a property of the transparency is operating outside of an acceptable limit, wherein the transparency is mounted in body of a vehicle, the system comprising:
a sensor to monitor operating performance of the property, and to generate a first signal providing the operating performance of the property, and
data processing equipment to receive the information of the first signal, and to generate a second signal scheduling repair or replacement of the transparency at a geographical area when the operating performance as indicated by the first signal is outside an acceptable operating performance limit, wherein the second signal is forwarded to the vehicle and to a maintenance location to prepare for repair or replacement of the transparency.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The system according to claim 14 wherein the vehicle is an aircraft, and the sensor is mounted on the transparency, and wherein the data processing equipment comprises first data processing apparatus positioned in the aircraft and a second data processing apparatus provided outside of the aircraft, wherein the first data processing apparatus receives he first signal, and the second data processing apparatus generates the second signal and receives a third signal, wherein the third signal comprises information from at least one item from of the group of items comprising the first signal, acceptable operating performance limit of the property, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15 wherein the second data processing apparatus generates the second signal, wherein the second signal includes information selected from the group of time period in which repair or replacement of the transparency should be made, designating a geographic area to make the repair to the transparency or to replace the transparency; arranging for the aircraft, personnel, equipment and/or parts to be available at the geographic area.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The system according to claim 16 wherein the first data processing apparatus transmits the third signal to a receiving and transmitting tower, or to a receiving and transmitting satellite, and the receiving and transmitting tower, or the receiving and transmitting satellite transmits the third signal to the second data processing apparatus.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The system according to claim 17 wherein the second data processing apparatus transmits the second signal to at least one of the following: the aircraft, a third data processing apparatus, a fourth data processing apparatus, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The system according to claim 18 wherein the second data processing apparatus transmits the second signal to a receiving and transmitting tower, or to a receiving and transmitting satellite, and the receiving and transmitting tower, or the receiving and transmitting satellite transmits the second signal to the at least one of the following: the aircraft, the third data processing apparatus, the fourth data processing apparatus, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 20 (depends on 14)

The system according to claim 14 wherein the sensor is selected from the group of a sensor for detecting moisture; a sensor for detecting impacts and vibrations; a sensor for detecting fractures; a sensor for detecting electric arcing; a sensor for measuring temperature of an electrically conductive coating, and combinations thereof.