Composite leg for landing gear assembly
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorMax U. Kismarton
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Abstract
A composite leg for a landing gear assembly includes a composite compression cap including reinforcing fibers that provide strength in compression, and a tension cap including reinforcing fibers that provide strength in tension. At least some of the fibers are oriented at +α and −α with respect to a longitudinal axis of the leg, where α is between 2 and 8 degrees.
Claims21
A composite leg for a landing gear assembly, the composite leg comprising:
- a composite compression cap including reinforcing fibers that provide strength in compression;
- and
- a composite tension cap including reinforcing fibers that provide strength in tension;
- wherein at least some of the fibers are oriented at +α and −α with respect to a longitudinal axis of the leg, where α is between 2 and 8 degrees.
The composite leg of claim 6, wherein the reinforcing fibers in the torque box have a lower strain of compression than the fibers that provide the strength in compression and a lower strain of tension than the fibers that provide strength in tension.
A landing gear assembly leg comprising:
- a composite compression cap including reinforcing fibers oriented at +α and −α with respect to a longitudinal axis of the leg;
- and
- a composite tension cap including reinforcing fibers oriented at +α and −α with respect to the longitudinal axis of the leg;
- where α is between 2 and 8 degrees.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.