US 8,997,598 B2Granted

Control wheel for aeronautics

AssigneeCrouzet Automatismes

InventorsThierry Vinard, David Astier, Vincent Mangin, Nicolas Palusinski

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Abstract

The invention concerns a control wheel (100) for aeronautics constituted of at least two half-shells (10) assembled one to the other, said half-shells comprising reinforcing ribs (11) on their internal surface, positioning and fixing means (12) and locating holes (13) to allow the passage of electrical wires connecting electrical actuating means (20) to a control unit. The control wheel (100) includes a central opening (15) intended to be connected to a control shaft/hub. The wheel comprises an intermediate guide part (50) disposed between the half-shells (10) and positioned inside the control wheel (100), said part including at least one guide conduit (51) adapted to connect on the one hand a locating hole (13) to the central opening (15) of the control wheel (100).

Claims20

Dependent claims

A control wheel for aeronautics comprising:

at least two half-shells assembled to each other, each of the at least two half-shells comprising:
an external face and an internal face;
reinforcing ribs on the internal face;
and
positioning and fixing means, wherein at least one of the at least two half-shells further includes locating holes to allow a passage of electrical wires connecting electrical actuating means to a control unit;
a central opening that connects to a control shaft/hub;
and
an intermediate guide part disposed between the at least two half-shells and positioned inside the control wheel, said intermediate guide part forming at least one guide conduit, inside of which guides the electrical wires directly from the locating holes to the central opening of the control wheel, the at least one guide conduit having an end disposed adjacent to the locating holes and another end disposed adjacent to the central hole.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.