Aircraft landing gear comprising a wheel with integrated magnetic braking device and aircraft equipped with such a landing gear

Abstract

A landing gear includes a leg having an end carrying a shaft on which a wheel is mounted. The wheel includes a hub portion, a rim portion coaxial with the hub portion and connected to the hub portion by a web portion, and an eddy current magnetic braking device comprising a rotor which is made of electrically conductive material and which is rotatably connected to the wheel and a stator which is rotatably connected to the leg and which is rotatable relative to the rim portion and the rotor. The stator carries magnets that emit a magnetic flux that generates eddy currents in the rotor when the stator and the rotor are facing each other and in relative movement, and the rotor is in one piece with the rim portion.

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