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US 2020/0060016 A1Published application
Aircraft component plasma heaters
AssigneeRosemount Aerospace Inc.
InventorsMagdi A. Essawy, Kent A. Ramthun
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Abstract
An aircraft component can include an aircraft component body, and a plasma heater disposed at least partially on or at least partially within the component body and configured to selectively heat the component body. The aircraft component can be an air data sensor, and the aircraft component body can be a sensor body. The aircraft component can be any other suitable aircraft component (e.g., a portion of the airframe and/or any other suitable type of sensor and/or traditionally heated component).
Claims20
An air data sensor, comprising:
- a sensor body;
- and
- a plasma heater disposed at least partially on or at least partially within the sensor body and configured to selectively heat the sensor body.
An aircraft component, comprising:
- an aircraft component body;
- and
- a plasma heater disposed at least partially on or at least partially within the component and configured to selectively heat the component.
A method, comprising:
- heating an aircraft component with a plasma heater to prevent icing of the aircraft component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.