Skid landing gear having at least one cross-member with rockers, and an aircraft
AssigneeAirbus Helicopters
InventorsPierre Prud'Homme-Lacroix, Remy-Elian Arnaud, Brice Makinadjian
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Abstract
The present invention relates to landing gear having a first skid, a second skid, a front cross-member, and a rear cross-member. The landing gear includes at least one stiffener arranged on a cross-member, said stiffener having two rockers each extending from an outer end secured to the cross-member, two hinge means for hinging each rocker to a carrier structure, and an elongate link member extending between a first link end hinged to the first rocker to a second link end hinged to the second rocker.
Claims18
A landing gear for an aircraft, the landing gear having a longitudinally-extending load-bearing first skid and a longitudinally-extending load-bearing second skid together with a cross-member referred to as a front cross-member and a cross-member referred to as a rear cross-member, each cross-member connecting the first skid to the second skid, each cross-member having a first downwardly-directed branch secured to the first skid, and a second downwardly-directed branch secured to the second skid;
- wherein the landing gear includes at least one stiffener arranged on a cross-member, said stiffener comprising in succession in a transverse direction:
- a first rocker extending from an outer first end portion secured to the cross-member and going towards an inner first end portion that is free;
- a second rocker extending from an inner second end portion that is free towards an outer second end portion secured to said cross-member;
- first hinge means for hinging the first rocker to a carrier structure of an aircraft, and second hinge means for hinging the second rocker to said carrier structure;
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- an elongate link member extending from a first link end hinged to said inner first end portion of the first rocker to a second link end hinged to said inner second end portion of the second rocker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.