US 8,522,496 B2Granted

Compression mounted window assembly

AssigneeRosemount Aerospace Inc.

InventorsJonathan L. Boer, Eric L. Lovaasen, Kevin John Benning

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Abstract

A compression mounted window assembly is disclosed that includes a circular window having opposed front and rear planar surfaces and an outer periphery having forward and rearward chamfered edge surfaces, a compressible gasket circumscribing the outer periphery of the window, a housing with a portal having an annular seat for accommodating the window circumscribed by the gasket, wherein the annular seat has a first chamfered abutment surface corresponding to the forward chamfered edge surface of the window, an annular bezel operatively associated with the housing for compressively retaining the window assembly within the annular seat of the portal, and structure for securing the bezel to the housing, wherein the bezel has a second chamfered abutment surface corresponding to the rearward chamfered edge surface of the window.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A compression mounted window assembly comprising:

a) a circular window having opposed front and rear planar surfaces and an outer periphery having at least one chamfered edge surface;
b) a compressible material circumscribing the outer periphery of the window;
c) a housing having a portal defining an annular seat for accommodating the window circumscribed by the compressible material;
d) an annular bezel operatively associated with the housing for compressively retaining the window assembly within the annular seat of the portal;
and
e) means for securing the bezel to the housing;
wherein at least one of the annular seat and the annular bezel has a chamfered abutment surface that cooperates with the at least one chamfered edge surface of the window, and wherein the securing means includes a threaded locking ring continuously circumscribing the window for securing the bezel to the housing, wherein the threaded locking ring is threaded around its perimeter.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/644,952Filed 4 Oct 2012 · continuation
Priority: 2 Sep 2010
Published: US 2013/0081341 A14 Apr 2013
Granted: 3 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B64D 47/08
Equipment not otherwise provided for: arrangements of cameras
B64C 1/1492
Canopies; Windscreens or similar transparent elements: structure and mounting of the transparent elements in the window or windscreen
H04N 23/51
Constructional details: housings
B64D
Equipment for fitting in or to aircraft

Family

Application12/807,349Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Sep 2010
US 2013/0081341 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Apr 2013
US 8,353,137 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0055103 A1Published application
US 8,522,496 B2This patent

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