Aircraft landing gear of the rocker-arm and deformable-parallelogram type
AssigneeMessier-Bugatti-Dowty
InventorsDominique Ducos, Jean-François Locufier
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Abstract
The invention relates to an aircraft landing gear of deformable-parallelogram type, including: a leg including a casing (1) having a lower end on which a rocker arm (3) carrying at least one wheel is hinged by means of a pivot (2), a shock absorber (5) being connected between the rocker arm and the casing; two panels (10, 11) each hinged on the one hand on the structure of the aircraft and on the other hand on the leg, about parallel axes; According to the invention, one of the panels (11) is hinged on the leg while being connected to the casing by a pin on one end of the pivot (2) of the rocker arm.
Claims3
An aircraft landing gear of deformable-parallelogram type, comprising:
- a leg, including a casing (1), having a lower end on which a rocker arm (3) carrying at least one wheel is hinged by means of a pivot (2), a shock absorber (5) being connected between the rocker arm and the casing;
- two panels (10, 11), each hinged at a first portion on a structure of the aircraft and at a second portion on the leg, about parallel axes;
- wherein one of the panels (11) is hinged on the leg whilst being connected to the casing by a pin on one end of the pivot (2) of the rocker arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.