Lightning current controlling device, lightning current controlling method, and aircraft
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsYasunori SATO, Kei SUZUKI, Masato OGURA
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Abstract
A lightning current controlling method includes adjusting surface roughness of a surface of an aircraft body of an aircraft, a charged amount of the surface of the aircraft body of the aircraft, or both, to cause a passing path of a lightning current to be controlled when the aircraft is struck by lightning.
Claims17
A lightning current controlling method comprising adjusting surface roughness of a surface of an aircraft body of an aircraft, a charged amount of the surface of the aircraft body of the aircraft, or both, to cause a passing path of a lightning current to be controlled when the aircraft is struck by lightning.
A lightning current controlling device comprising:
- a first charged part that is configured to be provided to an aircraft and to be positively charged to have a higher probability of being a location struck by negative lightning;
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- a second charged part that is configured to be provided to the aircraft and to be negatively charged to have a higher probability of being a location struck by positive lightning.
An aircraft having surface roughness of a surface of its aircraft body that is adjusted to cause a passing path of a lightning current to be controlled when the aircraft is struck by lightning, a charged amount of the surface of the aircraft body that is adjusted to cause the passing path of the lightning current to be controlled when the aircraft is struck by lightning, or both.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.