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US 2023/0067093 A1Published application
Chord Lock Assembly for a Tiltrotor Aircraft
AssigneeBell Textron Inc.
InventorsAndrew Maresh, Kyle Cravener
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Abstract
Disclosed is a blade lock assembly, which may include a drag brace coupled to a fold crank assembly and to a rotary wing blade and may further include an actuator assembly configured to be coupled to a rotary wing cuff. The actuator assembly may include an actuator pin housing, an actuation pin at least partially sheathed by the actuator pin housing, and an actuator configured to extend and retract the actuation pin away from and toward the actuator pin housing.
Claims20
An assembly comprising:
- a plurality of rotary wing blades,
- a blade lock assembly coupled to a respective rotary wing blade and including:
- a drag brace coupled to a fold crank assembly and to a rotary wing blade;
- and
- an actuator assembly coupled to a rotary wing cuff and including:
- an actuator pin housing,
- an actuation pin at least partially sheathed by the actuator pin housing, and
- an actuator configured to extend and retract the actuation pin away from and toward the drag brace.
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A blade lock assembly comprising:
- a drag brace configured to be coupled to a fold crank assembly and to a rotary wing blade;
- and
- an actuator assembly configured to be coupled to a rotary wing cuff and including:
- an actuator pin housing,
- an actuation pin at least partially sheathed by the actuator pin housing, and
- an actuator configured to extend and retract the actuation pin away from and toward the drag brace.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.