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US 2017/0096215 A1Published application
Aircraft assembly
AssigneeSafran Landing Systems UK LTD
InventorsNicholas Foster, Nikhil Sehgal, Daniel Mulley, Peter Scott
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Abstract
An aircraft assembly having a first body connected to a second body via a flexible coupling arranged to limit separation of the bearing faces while permitting relative rotational movement between the bodies in a movement plane so as to define a joint between the bodies.
Claims17
An aircraft assembly comprising:
- a first body having a respective first side, a respective second side and a respective bearing face extending between the respective first side and the respective second side;
- a second body having, at a first end thereof, a respective first side, a respective second side and a respective bearing face extending between the respective first side and the respective second side, the second body being positioned relative to the first body such that the respective bearing faces are adjacent to one another and the respective first side of each body is closer to the respective first side of the other body than it is to the respective second side of the other body;
- and
- a flexible coupling arranged to limit separation of the bearing faces while permitting relative rotational movement between the bodies in a movement plane so as to define a joint between the first body and the second body, the flexible coupling comprising:
- one or more first flexible straps arranged in a first configuration in which the first straps are coupled to the first side of the first body and coupled to the second side of the second body;
- and
- one or more second flexible straps arranged in a second configuration in which the second straps are coupled to the second side of the first body and coupled to the first side of the second body, the first straps and the second straps being arranged in parallel across the joint.
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An aircraft assembly comprising:
- a first body having a first side, a second side and a bearing face extending between the sides;
- a second body having a first side, a second side and a bearing face extending between the sides, the bodies being positioned relative to one another such that the bearing faces are adjacent to one another and the first side of each body is closer to the first side of the other body than it is to the second side of the other body;
- and
- a flexible coupling arranged to limit separation of the bearing faces while permitting relative rotational movement between the bodies in a movement plane so as to define a joint between the bodies, the flexible coupling comprising:
- one or more flexible straps arranged in a first configuration in which the straps are coupled to the first side of the first body and coupled to the second side of the second body;
- and
- one or more flexible straps arranged in a second configuration in which the straps are coupled to the second side of the first body and coupled to the first side of the second body, the straps of the first and second configurations being arranged in parallel across the joint
- wherein:
- the bearing face of one or each body includes a channel for each flexible strap, the channel or channels for each strap being configured to define a depth which corresponds to the thickness of the strap to house the strap when the bearing faces of the bodies are in contact with one another and wherein the bearing faces are configured to define prominent land regions between the channels which are arranged to engage corresponding opposite land regions when the bearing faces contact one another;
- or
- each bearing face has a generally planar central portion;
- or the aircraft assembly is an aircraft landing gear assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.