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US 2016/0101871 A1Published application
Assistance device for operating a cowl and a nacelle for turbojet engine equipped therewith
AssigneeAircelle
InventorsPatrick BOILEAU, Samuel BLONDEAU
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Abstract
An assistance device is provided to maneuver of a cover of a nacelle of a turbojet engine. The assistance device includes a joint collinear with an existing joint or hinge for a fitting of the cover, and the joint of the device is rigidly secured to an angled part of which one end bears on the fitting of the cover and of which one point is hinged to a compression spring in order to apply assistance momentum to the fitting of the cover when the cover is raised.
Claims8
An assistance device for operating a cowl of a hinged turbojet engine nacelle by means of at least one fitting, said assistance device comprising:
- at least one elbow piece mounted on a hinge coaxial to a hinge of said at least one fitting and having an end bearing on said at least one fitting, and
- a compression spring applied on said at least one elbow piece to exert an assistance momentum on said at least one fitting of the cowl when the cowl is lifted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.